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• A creed is an ossified metaphor.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Metaphor, Creeds

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

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• No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

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  Book, Thinking, Importance

  Elbert Hubbard (1903). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great philosophers”

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• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

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  Book, Reading, Doctors

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

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• A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

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  Women, Maturity, Men

  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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• Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

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  Lawyer, Commerce, Jackals

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

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• I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

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  Uplifting, People, Giving

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• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

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  Funny, Money, Men

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

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• Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

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  Civilization, Bosoms, Respectability

  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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• Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

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  Men, Self, Deities

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.86, tredition

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• Time is an illusion-to orators.

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  Illusion, Orators

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• It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

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  Learning, Science, Men

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• Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

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  Marriage, Literature, Endeavour

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• I believe in the Motherhood of God.

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  Believe, Motherhood, I Believe

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

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  Pride, Men, Culture

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• The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

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  Flower, Mean, Effort

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

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  Strong, Wall, Civilization

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

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• Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

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  Weed, Flower, Finest

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• Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

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  Strength, Waiting, Solitude

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• Habit is a form of exercise.

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  Exercise, Habit, Form

  Elbert Hubbard (1907). “Little journeys to the homes of ...”

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• Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

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  House, Spirit, Wells

  "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard. p. 16, 1911.

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• Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

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  Struggle, Supremacy, Ends

  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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• Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

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  Funny, Blessed, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists ...: no. 1. Corot. no. 2. Correggio. no. 3. Bellini. no. 4. Cellini. no. 5. Abbey. no. 6. Whistler”

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• It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

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  Facts, Opinion, Illusion

  Elbert Hubbard (1907). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox”

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• Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

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  Love, Long, Matter

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1906). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

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  Leadership, Leader, Weakness

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