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What people need and what they want may be very different.
Elbert Hubbard
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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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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Art is nothing it's a way.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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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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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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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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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Money never made a fool of anybody it only shows them up.
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