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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

—Elbert Hubbard

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

—Elbert Hubbard

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

—Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

—Elbert Hubbard

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

—Elbert Hubbard

Cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite.

—Elbert Hubbard

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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

—Elbert Hubbard

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

—Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

—Elbert Hubbard

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

—Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

—Elbert Hubbard

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