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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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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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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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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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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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