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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
Purpose

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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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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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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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I believe in the Motherhood of God.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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