Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARDMan’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Success consists in the climb.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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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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