Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

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Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

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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 sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

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Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."

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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.

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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

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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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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

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Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

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I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

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Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

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To know when to be generous and when firm—this is wisdom.

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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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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously—the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

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