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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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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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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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