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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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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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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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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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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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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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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.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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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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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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