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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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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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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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Postponement: The father of failure.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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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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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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