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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

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
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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Effort Failure Glory Hope Persistence Success
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Endurance Fast Prayer Success Yourself
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Count Man Reward Risk See
Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Advice Failure Himself Man
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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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Alone Children Education Object Teaching
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Encouragement Hell Kind Man Result
What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Call God Himself Ideas Justice Man
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Children Limitation Parents
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Busy Kind Man Time Work
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Appearance God Scars Yourself
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Gossip Myself Opinion Talk Worth
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Fast Interrupt Man Move Oneself World
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

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