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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Growth One Liner Pain Process
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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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
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
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Believe Heart Heaven Ourselves Reach Religious
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Disguise Fools Money
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Gossip Myself Opinion Talk Worth
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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Avoid Criticism
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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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Business Education Fall Himself Man Marriage Woman
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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Ambition Intelligence Leadership Man Ourselves Possession
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Afraid Difficult Hate Jealous Live Myself Obstacle
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Education Himself Man Order Worth
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Answer Himself Lost Man Name
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Hard Work Secret Success
Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Achievement Freedom

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