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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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