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Elbert Hubbard Quotes: 24

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.