Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
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Don't make excuses, make good.
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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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…
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
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Allow motion to equal emotion.
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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty…
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around…
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
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Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
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