Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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In an inventor's work there is required something similar to that which the artist brings to bear.

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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

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The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

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The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

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Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

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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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A metaphysician is one who proves ten times as much as he believes; a scientist is one who believes ten times as much as he can prove.

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Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

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SCIENCE: 1. The knowledge of the common people classified and carried one step further. 2. Accurate organized knowledge grounded on fact. 3. Classified superstition.

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What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

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I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

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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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