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Elbert Hubbard Quotes


Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.