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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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
Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
Elbert Hubbard
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
Elbert Hubbard
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
Elbert Hubbard
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert Hubbard
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
Elbert Hubbard
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
Elbert Hubbard
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Elbert Hubbard
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Elbert Hubbard
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Elbert Hubbard
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
Elbert Hubbard
