Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 12

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• Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Orthodoxy, Corpses

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• The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Church, Science And Religion, Sinner

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• History: a collection of epitaphs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Epitaph, Collections

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Way, Virtue, Teach

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Divorce, Three, Sides

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

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  Communication, Waiting, Attention

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• Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

  Elbert Hubbard

  Way, New Ways, Dies

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• Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Literature, Pessimist

  "The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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• Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

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  Doe, Genius, Talent

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

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  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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

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  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

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  Friendship, Enemy, Predicaments

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

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  Heart, Optimistic, Optimism

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Peace, Government

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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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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  Religious, Sex, Opposites

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

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  Enemy, Telling The Truth, Cynicism

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• If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fun

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• Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

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  Punishment, Justice, Guilt

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Needs, Need You

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

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  Love You

  Elbert Hubbard (1905). “Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Copernicus. Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Humboldt. Sir William Herschel. Charles Darwin”

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• The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Progress, Needs

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Optimism

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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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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  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
  practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

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  People, Three, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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