Elbert Hubbard quote: "The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on."

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every s...
ELBERT HUBBARD

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff,...
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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The point I wish to make is this: President William McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to ...
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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 ...
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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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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
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The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvi...
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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
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Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing g...
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Victory; a matter of staying power.
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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest compe...
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Allow motion to equal emotion.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first ti...
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...
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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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Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert ...
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupt...
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
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Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Morality is largely a matter of geography.
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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great...
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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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 w...
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmount...
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does c...
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
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Habit is a form of exercise
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary m...
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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the ze...
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first ...
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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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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy o...
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The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and wor...
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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives we...
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to ...
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appr...
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is ...
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
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The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupt...
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
ELBERT HUBBARD

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
ELBERT HUBBARD

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition a...
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Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
ELBERT HUBBARD

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
ELBERT HUBBARD

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
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To stop sinning suddenly.
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
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Your neighbor is the man who needs you
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...
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An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
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If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build ...
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowled...
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff,...
ELBERT HUBBARD

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
ELBERT HUBBARD

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
ELBERT HUBBARD

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
ELBERT HUBBARD

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

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorio...
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
ELBERT HUBBARD

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARD

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gu...
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If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

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ELBERT HUBBARD

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

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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 standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

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