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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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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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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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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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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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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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