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My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

— Elbert Hubbard The Better Part (1901)

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Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

The Motto Book (1907)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

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.

Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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