Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked
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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
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Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better
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Victory; a matter of staying power.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
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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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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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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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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
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Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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