Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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

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

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BACK: 2. A smooth surface composed of skin and bones which stretches between Land's End and John O'Groat's.

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Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

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The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

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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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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

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If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

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Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

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

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The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

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

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No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

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Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

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SURGERY: An adjunct, more or less valuable to the diagnostician.

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I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

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