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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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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Postponement: The father of failure.
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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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