What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
ELBERT HUBBARDYou can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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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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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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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