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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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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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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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