The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
ELBERT HUBBARDFormal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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