TO GLEAN:
Webster defines: To pick up or gather together the scattered remainder of grain or other produce dropped or left lying by reapers... to pick up, gather together..in piecemeal fashion...acquire bit by bit from some source.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Epicurus
The greater the diffuculty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Thomas Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from ingested learning.
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Fra Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
-
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
-
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
-
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
-
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
-
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
-
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
-
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
-
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
-
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
-
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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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.
Fra Elbert Hubbard
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