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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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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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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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