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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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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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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 little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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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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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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