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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
Tenacity
Luck
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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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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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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Postponement: The father of failure.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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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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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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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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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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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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