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• The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love You

  Elbert Hubbard (1905). “Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Copernicus. Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Humboldt. Sir William Herschel. Charles Darwin”

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• Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

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  Men, Needs, Need You

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

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• Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Optimism

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

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• Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

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  Glasses, Religion, Boots

  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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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

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  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Every knock is a boost.

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  Life, Boost

  Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

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• There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
  practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

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  People, Three, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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• Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

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  History, Progress, Needs

  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 is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

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  Men, Atheism, Telling The Truth

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

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  Men, Reason

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Slavery

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

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  Inspirational, Men, He Man

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• Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

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  Sympathy, Children, Soul

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

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  Hero, Littles, Admiration

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

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• Grammar is the grave of letters.

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  Letters, Graves, Grammar

  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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• Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

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  Science, Doctors, Two

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

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• The goal of evolution is self - conquest

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  Self, Goal, Evolution

  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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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

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  Kindness, Cheer, Believe

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

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  Men, Long, Way

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• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

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  Poetry, Poverty, Instinct

  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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• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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  Death, Literature, Dies

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• There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

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  Stars, Liberty, Earth

  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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• You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

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  Squares, Firsts, Artistic

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• A creed is an ossified metaphor.

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  Atheism, Metaphor, Creeds

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

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• Time is an illusion-to orators.

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  Illusion, Orators

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