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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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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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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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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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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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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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