Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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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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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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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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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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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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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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