Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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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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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Success consists in the climb.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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