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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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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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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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