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Elbert Hubbard

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A teacher who makes two ideas grow from one shows the power of sharing thoughts. Hubbard describes a library as a quiet place where the dead lie, turning books into a hidden world. He also reminds us that giving someone a thought can lift them higher than simply telling them.

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Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. He founded the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, and was an influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Notable works: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

About Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. He founded the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, and was an influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He grew up in Hudson, Illinois, and worked as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company before turning to writing and publishing.

Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

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Live truth instead of professing it.

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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death

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Don't make excuses à make good.

Excuses

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History: gossip well told.

Gossip

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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Climber

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Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Life

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A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

College

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Diversity

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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

Community

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Being alone

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Attitude

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Being

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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized…

Ability

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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of…

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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only…

Atheism

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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Care

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Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

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There is something that is much more scare, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to discover ability.

Ability

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When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will…

Crime

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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…

Failure

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How…

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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the…

Being misunderstood

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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part…

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Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -…

Atheism

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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory…

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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…

Authority

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Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day…

Bears

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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your…

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Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . .…

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Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand…

Art

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If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he…

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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and…

Atheism

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Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely…

Bible

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If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread…

Bread

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“Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost;…

Friendship

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Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures,…

Confusion

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Elbert Hubbard by topic

Men (88) Inspirational (71) Life (50) Love (42) Religion (31) Success (26) Work (22) Failure (21) Education (19) Thinking (17) People (17) Greatness (17) Atheism (17)