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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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Laughter
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself and he wants others to be themselves, also.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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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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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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 American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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