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The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"

Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Elbert Hubbard
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

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

Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals.
Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."

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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.

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It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.

Elbert Hubbard
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Elbert Hubbard
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

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I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. 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.

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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Elbert Hubbard