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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

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• Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Laughter, Real

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

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  Success, Stress, Men

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• Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Miracle, Religion

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

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  Law, Succeed, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.20, Penguin

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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  Determination, Persistence, Hands

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

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  Encouragement, Lying, Class

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

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  Old Habits, Advice, Should

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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  Literature, Anticipation, Remember

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The cure for grief is motion.

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  Inspirational, Grief, Action

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

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  Ambition, Men, Energy

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.112, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

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  Business, Would Be, Wages

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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  Art, Way, Art Is

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• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

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  Love, Love Is, Blind

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.80, tredition

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• The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

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  Work, Heart, Hands

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• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

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  Book, College, Academic

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

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  Struggle, Fighting, Life Is

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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