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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
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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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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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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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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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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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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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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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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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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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