The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe man who has no problems is out of the game.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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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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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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