God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

—Elbert Hubbard

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About Elbert Hubbard

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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,...

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

—Elbert Hubbard

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A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent.

—Elbert Hubbard

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The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

—Elbert Hubbard

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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Question: How can justice be secured in Athens?
Solon: If those who are not injured feel as indignant as those who are.

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

—Henry David Thoreau

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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

—Marshall Rosenberg

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