Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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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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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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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

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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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I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

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

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Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

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Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

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In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

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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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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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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

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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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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

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