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"50 Elbert Hubbard Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 June 1856. Died: 7 May 1915 | Writer | Publisher | Artist | Philosopher |
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Avoid Criticism Nothing Say
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Able Being Criticism Endure
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friend Just Knows Loves
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Character His Know Man Many
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Achieved He Laughed Loved
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art Thing Way A
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Alive Get Life Never
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Except Failure Longer Trying
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Able Cash Experience Failure
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Live truth instead of professing it.

Instead Live Professing Truth
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

College Employer Finds Get
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Care Day Itself Morning
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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Acquainted Been Has-Been Optimist
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Failure Heart Kind Optimism
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Our Punished Sins Them
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Away Beautiful Block Elimination
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Along Child Enable Get
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Extraordinary Fifty Machine Man
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Being Dangerous Idea Worthy
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Consist Dam Day Every
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Anyway Believe Enemies Explain
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Hands Having Head Man
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Answer Argument Call Him
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Agree Another Becomes Cause
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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Being Efficient Hard Obnoxious
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Always Answers Desires Disappoint
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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 appreciate.

Able Am Appreciate I Am
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Day Done Every Every Day
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Being Dangerous Idea Worthy
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Come Dream Events Expected
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Hate Inertia Love Men
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Ability Far Finer More
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Genius Handicapped Limitations May
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Believed Every Freedom Himself
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Believed,Every,Freedom,Himself,Lived,Tyrant,Who

Alive God Sign Suffer
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Anything Better Negative Nothing
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Give Keep Others Secrets
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Alone Cheer Each Help
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We work to become, not to acquire.

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

Enemies Example Governments Individuals
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Life is just one damned thing after another.

After Another Just Just One
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Cowardly Fat Fight Man
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Accomplishes Day Ever Far
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Best Good Good Work Preparation
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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Bad Dares Good He
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Business Editor Employed Newspaper
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Church Manufacture Saves Science
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Days Doing Done Fast
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes & Sayings