In order to have friends, you must first be one.
ELBERT HUBBARDFormal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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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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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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