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.
ELBERT HUBBARDWhere parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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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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Growth is often a painful process.
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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 a goal.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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