Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
ELBERT HUBBARDI do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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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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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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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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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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