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#1

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#2

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#3

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom

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#4

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: enemies, explanations, friends

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#5

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: mistakes

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#6

“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.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: accomplishment, defeatism, invention, life

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#7

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: humour, life

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#8

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: love

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#9

“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: genius-stupidity

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#10

“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#11

“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: success

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#12

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: american-politics

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#13

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: failure, giving-up, inspirational, success

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#14

“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#15

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#16

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

tags: criticism

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#17

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days

tags: foolishness, inspirational

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#18

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: silence, understand

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#19

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: decisions, desired-outcomes, projects

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#20

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: vacation

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#21

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#22

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#23

“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.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#24

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#25

“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)”
― Elbert Hubbard, Works of Elbert Hubbard. Includes A Message to Garcia, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, The Mintage and Love, Life & Work

tags: cleverness, loyalty

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#26

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: greatness

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#27

“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: humor

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#28

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#29

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#30

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: reading

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