1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard – [Suffering]


If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard – [Quality]


Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Elbert Hubbard – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]


It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard – [Decisions]


It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard – [Ability]


It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.
Elbert Hubbard – [Compromise]


Laughter is higher than all pain.
Elbert Hubbard – [Laughter]


Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard – [Love]


Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard – [Mind]


Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard – [Truth]


Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Elbert Hubbard – [Love]


Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard – [Luck]


Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard – [Giving]


Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Elbert Hubbard – [Money]


Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard – [Explanations]


No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard – [Vacation]


One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard – [Joy]


One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Elbert Hubbard – [Plays]


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard – [Humankind]


One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Elbert Hubbard – [Experts]

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