To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
ELBERT HUBBARDIf it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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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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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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 reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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