Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
ELBERT HUBBARDA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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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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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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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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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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