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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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