A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
ELBERT HUBBARDA man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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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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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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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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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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