Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Kind Medicine Necessary Worst
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Ability Forget Goodness Greatness Memories
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Expectation Finding Search
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Believe Enemy Explanation Friendship Need Yourself
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Disguise Fools Money
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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Goal Hold Inspirational See Thinking Yourself
Growth is often a painful process.
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Growth One Liner Pain Process
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Capacity Genius Hard Work
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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Action Decision Strength Yourself
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Average Man Oneself Strong Weakness Woman
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Charity Power Production Salary
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.
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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Beautiful Believe Hands Myself Sleep Thinking
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Act Generosity Mean
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Divine Human Mistake Profit
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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Effort Failure Glory Hope Persistence Success
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Better Change Religion Yourself
Success consists in the climb.
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Consistency One Liner Struggle Success
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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Ability Discipline Feeling Yourself
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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Fast Interrupt Man Move Oneself World
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Impossible Potential Simplicity
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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Laughter Life Love True Work
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Better Negative Positive
Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Animal Politics Regard Thinking
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Lawyer Man Protection
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

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