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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
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The heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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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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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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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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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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