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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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Bloomington
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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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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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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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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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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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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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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