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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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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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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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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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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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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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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.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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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.
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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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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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