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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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 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
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
Elbert Hubbard
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Elbert Hubbard
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
Elbert Hubbard
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert Hubbard
Postponement: The father of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Elbert Hubbard
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
Elbert Hubbard
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Elbert Hubbard
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
Elbert Hubbard
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Elbert Hubbard
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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