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The heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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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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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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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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
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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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Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
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