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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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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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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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