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Elbert Hubbard: top 100 quotes
100 definitions on 27 concepts
Death (n.) is to stop sinning suddenly.
Death (n.) is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Death (n.) is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Death (n.) is a readjustment of life's forces.
Success (n.) is voltage under control.
Success's (n.) secret is that there is no secret.
Success (n.) is to rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.
Success (n.) is giving up the fight, being possessed of the fallacy that you have won.
Success (n.) is hideous to all but its victims.
Imagination (n.) is taking the halter off your thoughts and giving them a good kick behind.
Imagination (n.) is the plasma of gods
Imagination (n.) is the seigniory of untrammeled instincts
Imagination (n.) is the Shakespeare of mental faculties
University (n.) is an institution for the prevention of learning.
Happiness (n.) is a habit—cultivate it.
Happiness (n.) is a habit and so must be cultivated.
Happiness (n.) depends less on what befalls one than the way in which one takes it.
Happiness (n.) is a habit, which, as such, requires cultivation
Happiness (n.) is a mental state compounded of wine, women and tobacco.
Happiness (n.) is a postprandial state of mind, which is most often a presage of acute gastritis.
Happiness (n.) is merely the remission of pain.
Happiness (n.) might have happened yesterday, but which will never happen tomorrow.
Happiness (n.) is a loving-cup, the bottom of which is like a sieve.
Happiness (n.) is forgetting self in useful effort.
Happiness (n.) is the exploitation and final triumph of an instinct in the individual that society has branded as wicked or dangerous.
Genius (n.) is simultaneity of sight.
Fear (n.) is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.
Civilization (n.) is a machine for the perpetuation of the weak
A Friend (n.) knows you and loves you just the same.
Alcohol (n.) is a liquid for preserving almost everything but secrets.