Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 14

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• No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Thinking, Importance

  Elbert Hubbard (1903). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great philosophers”

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• An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

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  Decision, Sometimes, Executives

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• The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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  People, Trying, Married

  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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• Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  The Philistine, 'In Re Muldoon'

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• Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Movement, Life Is

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• Action is thought tempered by illusion.

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  Ideas, Action, Illusion

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

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• Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memories, Gossip, Dignity

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

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• Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

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  Adventure, Men, Vacation

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• Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

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  Damage, Lawyer, Prosperity

  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 rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

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  Devil, Doe, World

  Preface to "Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century". Printed by Shop Roycroft Printi, 1897.

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• One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

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  Death, Two, Age

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

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  Religion, Obvious, Mystic

  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 man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

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  Running, Men, Vacation

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

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• Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

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  Body, Guests, Banquets

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Religion, Atheism

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• When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Truth, Cease

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• A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Too Much, Rich

  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 heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

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  Men, Wish, Heroism

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

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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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  Men, Buttons, Matter

  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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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

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  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

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  Men, Succeed, Imitation

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

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• Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

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  Inspirational, Knowledge, Essence

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• History: gossip well told.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Gossip, Wells

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• Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

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  Gossip, Vices, Enjoyed

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• If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Names, Heaven

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.56, Penguin

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