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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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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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