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“Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?”

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Book: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
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“Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.”

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Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
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“When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard
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“Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.”

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Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
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“He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.”

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Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers ...: no. 1. Booker T. Washington. no. 2. Thomas Arnold. no. 3. Erasmus. no. 4. Hypatia. no. 5. St. Benedict. no. 6. Mary Baker Eddy
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“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”

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Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
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“Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!”

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