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Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.”
“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.”
“Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.”
“Conformists die, but heretics live forever.”
“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it”
“Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.”
“We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.”
“We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.”
“The artist needs no religion beyond his work.”
“Fear clogs; Faith liberates.”
“An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.”
“Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.”
“Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.”
“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”
“Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.”
“An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.”
“Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion”
“Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better”
“The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.”
“Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it”
“What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.”
“Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.”
“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
“It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.”
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
“Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.”
“Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.”