Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARDYou can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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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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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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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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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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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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