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Elbert Hubbard: top 300 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
Imagination (n.) is a ladder to the fourth dimension
Imagination (n.) is sympathy illumined by brains.
Imagination (n.) is the candle-gleam of science; the flambeau of the lover; the constellated nebulaæ of the poet
Imagination (n.) is the giant enemy of reality.
Imagination (n.) is a golden key that unlocks the bastile of logic.
Imagination (n.) is a haunted chateau.
Imagination (n.) is a marvelous little multicolored drugget that covers the rough and splintered floor of reality.
Imagination (n.) is a vestibule between Time and Eternity.
Imagination (n.) is puck strapped to the back of Balaam's ass.
Imagination (n.) is the avatar of the emotions. 1
Imagination (n.) is the candle-gleam of science; the flambeau of the lover; the constellated nebulaæ of the poet.
Imagination (n.) is the glittering west-dust of a hidden innominate sun.
Imagination (n.) is the red Pantheon of Lucifer.
Imagination (n.) is the seigniory of untrammeled instincts; the fief of unsanctified dreams; the palfrey that carries us toward nebulous spiritual hills.
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.
Fear (n.) clogs while faith liberates.
Fear (n.) is sure to bring a thing to pass.
Fear (n.) is a club used by priests, presidents, kings and policemen to keep the people from recovering stolen goods.
Fear (n.) is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Fear (n.) is the rock on which we split.
Civilization (n.) is a machine for the perpetuation of the weak
Civilization's (n.) path is paved with tin cans.
Civilization (n.) is a device for increasing human ills
Civilization (n.) is an ingenious contraption for spreading disease and hunger.
Civilization (n.) is a device for increasing human ills; a machine for the perpetuation of the weak; an ingenious contraption for spreading disease and hunger.
A Friend (n.) knows you and loves you just the same.
The Friend (n.) knows all about you, and still likes you.
The Friend (n.) is the masterpiece of Nature.
Alcohol (n.) is a liquid for preserving almost everything but secrets.