Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
ELBERT HUBBARDMan is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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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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Anyone 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.
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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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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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