Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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

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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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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

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Nature, n. The Unseen Intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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When you cannot answer your opponent's logic, do not be discouraged—You can still call him vile names.

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Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

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The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.

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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

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

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

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Fanaticism is a disease of the mind, just as alcoholism is a disease of the body, and the rational cure for both is the diminishing dose. That is, you are weaned from one thing by the substitution of something less harmful.

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