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Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
A Message to Garcia (1899)
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
Credo (1901)
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1922)
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.
An American Bible (1918)
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.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
The Better Part (1901)
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
The Better Part (1901)
My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.
The Better Part (1901)
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
The Better Part (1901)
I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.
The Better Part (1901)
An Anarchist is one who minds his own business.
The Better Part (1901)
Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)