Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on 'giving as good as they get'.

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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

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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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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals.
Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."

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Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

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Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.

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Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.

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We know that we can help ourselves only as we help others, and that the love we give away is the only love we keep.

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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

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A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

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No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

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