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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.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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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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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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