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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
It is only life and love that give love and life.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)