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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

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Damned

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The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Biology

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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Art

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I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Believe

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The cheerful loser is the winner.

Cheerful

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Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Freedom

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I believe in the Motherhood of God.

Believe

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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Cultivate

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What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

Atheism

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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Greatness

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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Drown

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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Pride

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Good

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

Punished

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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

Continuous

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

Anticipation

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At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else…

Marriage

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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…

Disease

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Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Dies

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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their…

Captives

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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time,…

Be kind

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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Food

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Strength

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would…

Effort

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Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is…

Deny

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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and…

Danger

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Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many…

Bananas

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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image…

Creatures

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It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to…

Curious

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“Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know…

Common knowledge

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The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in…

Ability

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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and…

Commitment

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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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I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not…

Advice

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“A PRAYER The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or “good,” but simply to…

Courage

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Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true…

Air

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When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was…

Age

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In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as…

Able

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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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Elbert Hubbard by topic

Men (88) Inspirational (71) Life (50) Love (42) Religion (31) Success (26) Work (22) Doe (22) Failure (21) Ifs (20) Education (19) Way (18) Knows (18) Thinking (17) Persons (17) People (17) May (17) Greatness (17) Believe (17) Atheism (17) Business (16) Wells (14) Time (14) Should (14) Positive atheism (14)