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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert Hubbard
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Elbert Hubbard
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Elbert Hubbard
The cure for grief is motion.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
Elbert Hubbard
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
Elbert Hubbard
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
Elbert Hubbard
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
Elbert Hubbard
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Elbert Hubbard
