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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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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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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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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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