Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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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.
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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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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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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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.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.