You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
ELBERT HUBBARDHappiness is a habit—cultivate it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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