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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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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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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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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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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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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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