The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDMeanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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 goal without a plan is a dream.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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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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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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