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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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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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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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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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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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