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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
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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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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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