Elbert Hubbard Short Quotes

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Logic is one thing and common sense another.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

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

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We should be judged, not by our acts, but by our temptations.

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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

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

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

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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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SURGERY: An adjunct, more or less valuable to the diagnostician.

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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

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Life is a dangerous business — few indeed get out of it alive.

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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

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We flatter only those we fear — the highest applause is silence.

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Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

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Lawyer: The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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

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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

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