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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Elbert Hubbard

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Believe Effort Faith True Yourself
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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Believe Change Light Myself Possible Time
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
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Easy Learning Provide Yourself
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Ability Better God Reward Work
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Fools Limitation Man Wisdom
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Compliment Doubt Exception Herself Woman
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Act Generosity Mean
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Effort Frequency Genius Mistake Stone
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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Art One Liner Perspective Way
We work to become, not to acquire.
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Achievement Difference One Liner Work
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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Blame Forgiveness Hate Idol Yourself
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
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Happiness Life 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
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

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