Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
ELBERT HUBBARDDown in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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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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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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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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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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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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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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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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