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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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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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Elbert Hubbard
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Freedom cannot be bestowed -- it must be achieved.
Elbert Hubbard
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Life is just one damn thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
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Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
Elbert Hubbard
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Elbert Hubbard
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He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
Elbert Hubbard
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If you want work well done, select a busy man ,\xa0the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard
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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Elbert Hubbard
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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
Elbert Hubbard
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Elbert Hubbard
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The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
Elbert Hubbard
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Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.
Elbert Hubbard
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Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
Elbert Hubbard
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.
Elbert Hubbard
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A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Elbert Hubbard
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Elbert Hubbard
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It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
Elbert Hubbard
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Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Elbert Hubbard
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
Elbert Hubbard
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell -- joy consists in forgetting life.
Elbert Hubbard
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Elbert Hubbard
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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Elbert Hubbard
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
Elbert Hubbard
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The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
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