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A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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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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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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