Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard

Born: June 19, 1856

Died: May 7, 1915

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, publisher, artist, philosopher

Biography: Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Elbert Hubbard

“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: The Roycraft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)
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“Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Fear clogs; faith liberates.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others (2010 edition), MobileReference - ISBN: 9781607782995
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“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: A thousand & one epigrams: selected from the writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911 edition)
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“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: The Philistine (1915 edition)
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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work (1923 edition)
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“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”

- Elbert Hubbard

Source/Notes: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard[: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments, Coined from a Life of Love, Laughter and Work, by a Man who Achieved Greatly in Literature, Art, Philosophy and Business (1998 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9780766104167
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“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

- Elbert Hubbard

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