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Growth is often a painful process.

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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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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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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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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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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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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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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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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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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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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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