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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Topic: Anticipation
Source: None
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
Topic: Compromise
Source: None
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Topic: Criticism
Source: None
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To stop sinning suddenly.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Topic: Decision
Source: None
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
Topic: Difficulties
Source: None
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Topic: Enemy
Source: None
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If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Topic: Enemy
Source: None
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Topic: Failure
Source: None
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Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
Topic: Gallantry
Source: None
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To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.
Topic: Gallantry
Source: None
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".
Topic: Glutton
Source: None
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Topic: Government
Source: None
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Topic: Habit
Source: None
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Topic: Help
Source: Pig-Pen Pete--Why I Ride Horse-Back
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Topic: Help
Source: None
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Topic: Kindness
Source: None
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Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Topic: Letters
Source: None
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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
Topic: Logic
Source: None
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
Topic: Loss
Source: None
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door,
and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The
world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases
can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him
forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have
to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity
does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves
that they are alive.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: in "The Philistine"
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Topic: Pride
Source: None
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If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Topic: Quality
Source: None
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
Topic: Quarrel
Source: None
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Topic: Reputation
Source: None
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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Topic: Rivalry
Source: None
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Topic: Secrecy
Source: None
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.
Topic: Service
Source: None
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Topic: Sin
Source: None
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