Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

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A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

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Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

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

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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

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Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

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What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

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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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Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

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The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.

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Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

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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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Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

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The brains of a thousand inventors have seethed, dreamed, contrived, thought, so as to bring me to my present form.

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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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Logic is one thing and common sense another.

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