Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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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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Success consists in the climb.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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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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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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