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| Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. Art is not a thing; it is a way. Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done. It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. Life is just one damned thing after another.Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.There is no failure except in no longer trying. This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Tradition: A clock that tells us what time it was. Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
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