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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 13

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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Government, Kind

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

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Men, Atheism, Telling The Truth

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Men, Reason

Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Slavery

Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Inspirational, Men, He Man

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Sympathy, Children, Soul

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Hero, Littles, Admiration

"The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Letters, Graves, Grammar

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

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Science, Doctors, Two

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

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Self, Goal, Evolution

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

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Men, Long, Way

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

Kindness, Cheer, Believe

Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Squares, Firsts, Artistic

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

God, Eye, Thinking

Elbert Hubbard (1911). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Famous women”

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Fate, Men, Wealth

"The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1923.

Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Life, Movement, Life Is

Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Freedom, Self, Liberty

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

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Ideas, Action, Illusion

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

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Memories, Gossip, Dignity

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

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Havens

Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

Adventure, Men, Vacation

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Damage, Lawyer, Prosperity

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

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Body, Guests, Banquets

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Devil, Doe, World

Preface to "Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century". Printed by Shop Roycroft Printi, 1897.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Death, Two, Age

Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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