Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 9

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• Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Example, Governing

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

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Football, Agriculture

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature, Libertarian, Sin

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

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• The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

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  Sweet, Secret, Age

  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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• Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

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  Motivational, Effort, Genius

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hands, Atheism, Slavery

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

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• The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

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  Believe, Men, Average

  The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest Volume XI, July 1900 (p. 36)

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• The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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  Work, Giving, Rewards

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Victory; a matter of staying power.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Power, Victory, Matter

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of ...”

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Failure, Commitment

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

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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

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• Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

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  Home, Charity

  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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• Laughter is higher than all pain.

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  Laughter, Pain, Higher

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• To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

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  Exercise, Thinking, Achievement

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p. 64, 1927.

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• He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Influence

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers ...: no. 1. Booker T. Washington. no. 2. Thomas Arnold. no. 3. Erasmus. no. 4. Hypatia. no. 5. St. Benedict. no. 6. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

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  Prophecy, Happens

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• Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

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  Generosity, Half, Stinginess

  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, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

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  Beautiful, Death, 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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• Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

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  Jealousy, Cold, Sunny

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

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• If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

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• When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

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  Wise, Men, Weak Man

  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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• Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

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  Prejudice, Logic, Used

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

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  Illusion, Pursuit, Possession

  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 great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

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  Lying, Stupid, Men

  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.14, The Floating Press

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• Live truth instead of professing it.

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  Truth, Character, Hypocrite

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1908). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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