Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.

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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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I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.

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

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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

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The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

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The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

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What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

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In an inventor's work there is required something similar to that which the artist brings to bear.

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Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

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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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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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We should be judged, not by our acts, but by our temptations.

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If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

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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. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

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

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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

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