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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Art is nothing it's a way.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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