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Elbert Hubbard: top 200 quotes
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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.
Success (n.) is natural, which is to say that the person who does not succeed, by definition, has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
Success (n.) is a constant sense of discontent, broken by brief periods of satisfaction on doing some specially good piece of work.
Success (n.) often comes fast than you are able to endure it.
Success (n.) is a matter of outliving your sins.
Success (n.) is a matter of the red corpuscle.
Success (n.) is a stained-glass window through which one may see an ironic moon.
Success (n.) is a subtle connivance of Nature for bringing about a man's defeat.
Success (n.) is the accomplishment of one's best.
Success (n.) is the final link in a chain of chalk.
Success (n.) is the realization of the estimate which you place upon yourself. 1
Success (n.) is to write your name high upon the outhouse of a country tavern.
Success (n.) is voltage under control—keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
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.
Genius (n.) is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Genius (n.) is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Genius (n.) is contrasted with talent in that talent does things tolerably well, and genius does them intolerably better.
Genius (n.) is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
Genius (n.) offends his time, his country and his relatives; hence, any person whose birthday is celebrated throughout the world about one hundred years after he has been crucified, burned, ostracized or otherwise put to death.
Genius (n.) stands at both ends of a perspective; simultaneity of sight; to be one's self plus; to be synonym and antonym to everything.
A Genius (n.) is one who stands at both ends of a perspective
A Genius (n.) is to be one's self plus.
A Genius (n.) is to be synonym and antonym to everything.
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.