Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARDIf your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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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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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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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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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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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 greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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