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• Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Public Opinion, Judgment, Discerning

  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 inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspiration, Departed, Purpose

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• In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mother, Motherhood, Vaudeville

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• The only way to retain love is to give it away.

  Elbert Hubbard

  True Love, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
  You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Boys, College, Thinking

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• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Literature, Dies

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• One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Play, Two, Tragedy

  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 newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Swings, People, Doe

  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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• It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Knowledge, Men, Differences

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Law, Yesterday

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine”

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Attitude, Son, Long

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• Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Type

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• One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Community, Soul

  "The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard".

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• Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Broken, Done

  "Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock". The Philistine magazine, May 1913.

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• I believe the Universe is planned for good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, I Believe, Universe

  "Credo". "A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p.6, 1901.

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• Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Desire, Able

  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.40, The Floating Press

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• A form of self-delusion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Self, Form

  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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• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

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  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Philosophy, Assuming, Preaching

  "The Philistine". Book by Elbert Hubbard, October 1897.

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• It is only life and love that give love and life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life And Love, Giving, And Love

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

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• There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

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  Joy, Fine, Eliminating

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

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  Men, Effort, Benefits

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “A Message to Garcia”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have
  always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sweet, Missing, Black

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

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• Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Creation, Masterpiece

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