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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
Elbert Hubbard
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard
Habit: The great economizer of energy.
Elbert Hubbard
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
Elbert Hubbard
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Elbert Hubbard
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
Elbert Hubbard
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 our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
Elbert Hubbard
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
Elbert Hubbard
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
Elbert Hubbard
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Elbert Hubbard
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Elbert Hubbard
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
