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One Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
- There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
- A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
- The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
- Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
- Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good…
- Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,…
- 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…
- Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
- The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
- Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in…
- The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
- The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime…
- Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
- The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
- The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in…
- Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
- One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
- Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken…
- Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
- One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
- The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
- Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression…
- One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
- Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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