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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 17

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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

Inspiration, Departed, Purpose

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

Records, Deeds, Lasts

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

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Sleep, Insomnia, Men

The Philistine, 'In Re Muldoon'

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

Mother, Motherhood, Vaudeville

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

True Love, Falling In Love, Love Is

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

Boys, College, Thinking

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death, Literature, Dies

It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

Ocean, Men, Sea

Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Knowledge, Men, Differences

Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Swings, People, Doe

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

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

Moving, Broken, Done

"Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock". The Philistine magazine, May 1913.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Believe, I Believe, Universe

"Credo". "A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p.6, 1901.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

Love, Blessing, Good Woman

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

Men, Atheism, Type

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

Mind, Desire, Able

Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.40, The Floating Press

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Men, Effort, Benefits

Elbert Hubbard (2012). “A Message to Garcia”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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.

Sweet, Missing, Black

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

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Women, Law, Yesterday

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine”

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Philosophy, Assuming, Preaching

"The Philistine". Book by Elbert Hubbard, October 1897.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Life And Love, Giving, And Love

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

A form of self-delusion.

Education, Self, Form

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

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Joy, Fine, Eliminating

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

Strong, Community, Soul

"The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard".

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Life, Dream, Fate

In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

Attitude, Son, Long

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