Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Literature
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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The thing we fear we bring to pass.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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