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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

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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
Cease
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Truth
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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