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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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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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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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