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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 12

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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Atheism, Orthodoxy, Corpses

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Church, Science And Religion, Sinner

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Way, Virtue, Teach

Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

History: a collection of epitaphs.

History, Epitaph, Collections

Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Way, New Ways, Dies

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Funny, Literature, Pessimist

"The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Doe, Genius, Talent

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

Happiness, Mother, Baby

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Friendship, Enemy, Predicaments

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Mind, Literature, Littles

Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Heart, Optimistic, Optimism

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

Death, Peace, Government

Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Religious, Sex, Opposites

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Enemy, Telling The Truth, Cynicism

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Fun

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Punishment, Justice, Guilt

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Men, Needs, Need You

Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

Love You

Elbert Hubbard (1905). “Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Copernicus. Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Humboldt. Sir William Herschel. Charles Darwin”

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Love, Life, Happiness

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Heart, Men, Optimism

Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

People, Three, Done

Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

Every knock is a boost.

Life, Boost

Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

History, Progress, Needs

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

Writing, Men, Thinking

Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Glasses, Religion, Boots

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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