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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
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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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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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.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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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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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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The goal of evolution is self - conquest
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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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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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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.
Elbert Hubbard
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
Elbert Hubbard
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
Elbert Hubbard
