Elbert Hubbard - Person Quotes

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

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When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

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Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

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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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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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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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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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