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Elbert Hubbard
June 19, 1859 - May 7, 1915
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

   

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

   

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

   

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

   

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

   

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

   

Live truth instead of professing it.

   

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

   

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

   

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

   

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

   

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.

   

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

   

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

   

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

   

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

   

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.

   

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

   

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

   

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

   

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