We were about to get a little depressed after three days without seeing any lights.


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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Laughter is higher than all pain.
ELBERT HUBBARD
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
ELBERT HUBBARD
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
ELBERT HUBBARD
What people need and what they want may be very different.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
ELBERT HUBBARD
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
ELBERT HUBBARD
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmount...
ELBERT HUBBARD
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does c...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Habit is a form of exercise
ELBERT HUBBARD
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary m...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the ze...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first ...
ELBERT HUBBARD
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy o...
ELBERT HUBBARD
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
ELBERT HUBBARD
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
ELBERT HUBBARD
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Play needs direction as well as work.
ELBERT HUBBARD
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and wor...
ELBERT HUBBARD
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The cheerful loser is the winner.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
ELBERT HUBBARD