Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

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

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

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

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

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To act in absolute freedom, and at the same time realize that responsibility is the price of freedom, is salvation.

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A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

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It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.

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

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There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

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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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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

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

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

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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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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

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