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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Victory a matter of staying power.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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