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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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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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Nothing is permanent but change.
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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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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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The goal of evolution is self - conquest
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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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