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• Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

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  Faith, Believe, Common Sense

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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.

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  Hate, Forgiving, Blame

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

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

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  Work, Effort, Lazy

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.369, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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  Men, Risk, Done

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• Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

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  Funny, Money, Fool

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• If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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  Funny, Men, Names

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• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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  Positive, Business, Educational

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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  Strength, Success, Being Strong

  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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• Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

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  Men, Law, Lawyer

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

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• Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

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  Hard Work, Genius, Moral

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• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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  Funny, Smile, Men

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• Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Fence

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• Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

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  Life, Freedom, Tyrants

  "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard".

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• It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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  Greed, Literature, Want

  Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures”

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• I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

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  Book, Reading, Conversation

  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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• Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

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  Motivational, Sports, Men

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• If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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  Thank You, God, World Suffering

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

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  Rewards, Done, Deeds

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• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Motivation

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• Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

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  Peace, Men, Sky

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

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  Emotion, Logic, Reason

  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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• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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  Success, Congratulations, Achievement

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• Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

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  Inspirational, Men, Volunteer

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