We are punished by our sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARDGenius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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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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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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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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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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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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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Success consists in the climb.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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