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The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.

— Elbert Hubbard The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

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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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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

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The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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