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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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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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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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A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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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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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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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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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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