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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Category: Ideas Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Category: Integrity Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Category: Logic Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
Category: Marriage Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.
Category: Medical Subjects Author: Elbert Hubbard
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If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Category: Mistakes Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Category: Mornings Author: Elbert Hubbard
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Category: Optimism and Pessimism Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Category: Optimism and Pessimism Author: Elbert Hubbard
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To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Category: Perfection Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Category: Reason Author: Elbert Hubbard Source: The Roycroft Dictionary
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Category: Religion Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Category: Simplicity Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Category: Stress Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Category: Success Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Category: Teachers Author: Elbert Hubbard
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Category: Technology Author: Elbert Hubbard
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
Category: Author: Elbert Hubbard
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