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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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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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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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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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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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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
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