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Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company.

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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. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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

Diversity

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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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Art is nothing; it's a way.

Art

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Library: A place where the dead lie.

Library

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“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

Ethics

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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Educated

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Example

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If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think…

I can

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1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too…

Good thing

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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems.…

Able

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Every knock is a boost.

Boost

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What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Boys

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Don't make excuses, make good.

Blame

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What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things…

Appreciate

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Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Culture

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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Art

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

Christianity

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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

College

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The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

Can do

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The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Sports

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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

Deeds

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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh…

Air

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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

Ends

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Failure

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

Generosity

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