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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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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 average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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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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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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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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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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