Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
ELBERT HUBBARDConstant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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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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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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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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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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