Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 14

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• Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Adventure, Men, Vacation

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• Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Damage, Lawyer, Prosperity

  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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• Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Body, Guests, Banquets

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Religion, Obvious, Mystic

  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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• One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Two, Age

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Men, Vacation

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

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• I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Devil, Doe, World

  Preface to "Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century". Printed by Shop Roycroft Printi, 1897.

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• When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Truth, Cease

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• A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Too Much, Rich

  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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• Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Religion, Atheism

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• The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Wish, Heroism

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

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• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Buttons, Matter

  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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• Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Laughing, Self Control

  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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• God is good, there is no devil but fear.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Fear, Devil

  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 imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Succeed, Imitation

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

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• Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ambition, Happy Marriage, World

  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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• Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hate, Men, Needs

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

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• Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Soul, Dawn, Stuff

  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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• Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

  Elbert Hubbard

  Gossip, Vices, Enjoyed

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• Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Essence

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• The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.74, The Floating Press

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• If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Names, Heaven

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.56, Penguin

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• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Why Not, Individual, Institutions

  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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• As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Mediocrity, Individual

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

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• History: gossip well told.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Gossip, Wells

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