Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 8

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• God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

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  God, Philosophy, Atheism

  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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• Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

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  Life, Men, Thinking

  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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• Nothing is permanent but change.

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  Change, Permanent

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

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• Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Kindness

  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 worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

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  Nursing, Medicine, Nurse

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• Theology is Classified Superstition.

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  Atheism, Superstitions, Theology

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• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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  People, Heaven, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Charles Carroll Albertson (1909). “Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved "That Christianity is Declining."”

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• Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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  Art, Pain, Successful

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• I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

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  Believe, Light, Add

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

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• The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

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  Art, Business, Winning

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• Life is just one damned thing after another.

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  Life, Success, Justice

  Philistine Dec. 1909, p. 32. The saying is often attributed to Frank Ward

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• Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

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  Fate, Compromise, Life Is

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

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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• Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

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  Christian, Islands, Imagination

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

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• Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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  Dream, Hope, Inspiration

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

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• An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

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  Play, Laughing, And Love

  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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• Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

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  Inspiring, Fitness, Health

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

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  Science, Men, Done

  "More Random Walks in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, p. 109, 1982.

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• I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Economic

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

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  Men, Devil, Worst

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

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• As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

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  Success, Dog, Cat

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

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• A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

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  Secret, May, Persons

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• The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

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  Wise, Opportunity, People

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

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• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

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

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• Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

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  Men, Example, Governing

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

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