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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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A good front is half the battle in love or war.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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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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The heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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