A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
ELBERT HUBBARDMan’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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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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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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