Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 13

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• Every knock is a boost.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Boost

  Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

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• Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

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  Glasses, Religion, Boots

  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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• Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

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  Government, Kind

  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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• Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Telling The Truth

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Reason

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Slavery

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Men, He Man

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• Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sympathy, Children, Soul

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

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  Hero, Littles, Admiration

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• Grammar is the grave of letters.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Letters, Graves, Grammar

  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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• Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Science, Doctors, Two

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

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• The goal of evolution is self - conquest

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  Self, Goal, Evolution

  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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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

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  Kindness, Cheer, Believe

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

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  Men, Long, Way

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• You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

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  Squares, Firsts, Artistic

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• An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

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  Decision, Sometimes, Executives

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• The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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  People, Trying, Married

  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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• Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

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  God, Eye, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Famous women”

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• Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  The Philistine, 'In Re Muldoon'

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• Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

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  Fate, Men, Wealth

  "The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1923.

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• Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

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  Life, Movement, Life Is

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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

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  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  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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• Action is thought tempered by illusion.

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  Ideas, Action, Illusion

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

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• Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memories, Gossip, Dignity

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

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• We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Havens

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