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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
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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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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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Victory a matter of staying power.
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
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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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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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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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