Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 12

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• Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ideas, Atheism, Peculiar

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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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  Fate, Men, Wealth

  "The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1923.

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• Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

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  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  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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• There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

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  Joy, Work Well Done, Splendid

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• We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Havens

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• Every life is its own excuse for being.

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  Life, Excuse, Existence

  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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• Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

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  Atheism, Orthodoxy, Corpses

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• The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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  Church, Science And Religion, Sinner

  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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• Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

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  Ambition, Happy Marriage, World

  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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• History: a collection of epitaphs.

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  History, Epitaph, Collections

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

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• If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

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  Way, Virtue, Teach

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

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• All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

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  Communication, Waiting, Attention

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• There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

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  Divorce, Three, Sides

  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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• Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

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  Way, New Ways, Dies

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• Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

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  Funny, Literature, Pessimist

  "The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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• Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

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  Doe, Genius, Talent

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• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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  Heart, Optimistic, Optimism

  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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• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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  Death, Peace, Government

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

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  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

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  Enemy, Telling The Truth, Cynicism

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• If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

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  Friendship, Enemy, Predicaments

  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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• Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

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  Punishment, Justice, Guilt

  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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• A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

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  Religious, Sex, Opposites

  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 mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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