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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
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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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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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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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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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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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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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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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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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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