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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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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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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
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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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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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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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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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The goal of evolution is self - conquest
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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