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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
— Elbert Hubbard
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
— Elbert Hubbard
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
— Elbert Hubbard
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
— Elbert Hubbard
The goal of evolution is self - conquest
— Elbert Hubbard
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
— Elbert Hubbard
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
— Elbert Hubbard
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
— Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
— Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
— Elbert Hubbard
I believe in the Motherhood of God.
— Elbert Hubbard
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
— Elbert Hubbard
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
— Elbert Hubbard
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
— Elbert Hubbard
Play needs direction as well as work.
— Elbert Hubbard
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
— Elbert Hubbard
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
— Elbert Hubbard
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
— Elbert Hubbard
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
— Elbert Hubbard
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
— Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
— Elbert Hubbard
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
— Elbert Hubbard
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
— Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
— Elbert Hubbard
You gain by giving - so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
— Elbert Hubbard
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
— Elbert Hubbard
Library: A place where the dead lie.
— Elbert Hubbard
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
— Elbert Hubbard
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
— Elbert Hubbard
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
— Elbert Hubbard
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
— Elbert Hubbard
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is only life and love that give love and life.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
— Elbert Hubbard
If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
— Elbert Hubbard
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
— Elbert Hubbard
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
— Elbert Hubbard
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.
— Elbert Hubbard
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
— Elbert Hubbard
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
— Elbert Hubbard
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
— Elbert Hubbard
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
— Elbert Hubbard
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
— Elbert Hubbard
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
— Elbert Hubbard
It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
— Elbert Hubbard
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
— Elbert Hubbard
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
— Elbert Hubbard
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
— Elbert Hubbard
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
— Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
— Elbert Hubbard
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
— Elbert Hubbard
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
— Elbert Hubbard
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
— Elbert Hubbard
Postponement: The father of failure.
— Elbert Hubbard
Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.
— Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
— Elbert Hubbard
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
— Elbert Hubbard
No matter how long you live, die young.
— Elbert Hubbard
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
— Elbert Hubbard