Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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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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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Life is just one damn thing after another.
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When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.
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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
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Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.