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Every life is its own excuse for being.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Life
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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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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Play needs direction as well as work.
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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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Nothing is permanent but change.
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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
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