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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Money never made a fool of anybody it only shows them up.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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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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