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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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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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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
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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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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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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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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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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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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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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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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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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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