There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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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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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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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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Success consists in the climb.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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 greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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