Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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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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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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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

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Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

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

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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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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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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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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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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

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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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