Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 16

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• A good front is half the battle in love or war.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, War, Battle

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• All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

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  Jesus, Men, Gentleman

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

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• Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

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  Dream, Justice, Soul

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

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  Faith, Thinking, People

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• I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

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  Believe, Bills, Sin

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

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• Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

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  Success, Hands, Voltage

  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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• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Errors, Optimism

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

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• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

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  Real, Real Friends, Finest

  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.65, The Floating Press

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• There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

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  Stars, Liberty, Earth

  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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• Play needs direction as well as work.

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  Play, Needs, Wells

  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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• A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

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  Education, College, Degrees

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

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• Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

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  Love, Blessing, Good Woman

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• Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

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  Struggle, Liberty, Four

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

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• Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

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  Law, Violence, Murder

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

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• Habit: The great economizer of energy.

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  Energy, Habit

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• It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

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  Records, Deeds, Lasts

  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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• The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.

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  Home, World, Retiring

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

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• God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

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  Issues, Saws, Clergy

  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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• The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

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  Baseball, Men, Definitions

  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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• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

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  Poetry, Poverty, Instinct

  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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• What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

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  Boys, Shrewdness, Compare

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

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• Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

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  Opportunity, Lucky, Individual

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.31, Penguin

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• Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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  Love, Hope, Literature

  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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• Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

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  Boys, Soul, Stuff

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists: Thorwaldsen”

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