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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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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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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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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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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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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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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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