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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. (Elbert Hubbard)
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. View quote
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If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost you can still call him vile names. View quote
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. View quote
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. View quote
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If you want work well done, select a busy man the other kind has no time. View quote
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity. View quote
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. View quote
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. View quote
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing. View quote
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion. (Elbert Hubbard)
Happiness is a habit - cultivate it. View quote
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. View quote
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. View quote
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Laughter is higher than all pain. View quote
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will. View quote
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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. View quote
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. (Elbert Hubbard)
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. View quote
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. View quote
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Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. View quote
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. View quote
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