I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
ELBERT HUBBARDLovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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