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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
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Emotions
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No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
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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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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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