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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

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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Beautiful Believe Hands Myself Sleep Thinking
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Freedom One Liner Price Responsibility
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Believe Change Light Myself Possible Time
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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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Friendship Man Secret Togetherness Yourself
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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Himself Leadership Man Paradise Woman
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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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
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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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Count Man Reward Risk See
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Friendship Pay Work
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Afraid Difficult Hate Jealous Live Myself Obstacle
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Generosity Greatness Man Reward Rich Service
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Hands Head Inspirational Man Pay Potential
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Act Genius Power Right Time
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Lawyer Man Protection

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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