Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 9

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• The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Way

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• The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

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  Sweet, Secret, Age

  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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• Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

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  Home, Charity

  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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• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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  Time, Attitude, Character

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

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  Believe, Men, Average

  The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest Volume XI, July 1900 (p. 36)

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• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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  Running, Fighting, Men

  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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• Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

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  Love, Art, Fall

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• A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimistic

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

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• Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

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  Hands, Atheism, Slavery

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

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• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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  Literature, Libertarian, Sin

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

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• Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

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  Men, Evil, And Love

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• Victory; a matter of staying power.

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  Power, Victory, Matter

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of ...”

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• Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

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  Writing, Thinking, Folks

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

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• Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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  Enthusiasm, Dignity, Hills

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

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

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  Sports, Failure, Commitment

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

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• The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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  Work, Giving, Rewards

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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  Success, Hope, Failure

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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  Literature

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.40, Penguin

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• Laughter is higher than all pain.

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  Laughter, Pain, Higher

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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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  Exercise, Thinking, Achievement

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p. 64, 1927.

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• He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

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  Time, Influence

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers ...: no. 1. Booker T. Washington. no. 2. Thomas Arnold. no. 3. Erasmus. no. 4. Hypatia. no. 5. St. Benedict. no. 6. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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

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• Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

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  Prophecy, Happens

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• Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

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  Generosity, Half, Stinginess

  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, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

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  Beautiful, Death, Men

  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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