Elbert Hubbard - Mind Quotes

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

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The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.

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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

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I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

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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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