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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Elbert Hubbard on punishment

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard on risk

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Kin Hubbard on beauty

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard on business

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard on happiness

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard on kindness

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
Kin Hubbard on people

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard on success

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard on wealth

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon on ability

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon on adversity

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon on adversity

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon on beauty

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.
Francis Bacon on beauty

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon on beauty

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon on change

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon on fortune

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon on friendship

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon on goodness

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon on health