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Elbert Hubbard

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. Presently 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.

Simeon Stylites The Syrian by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: Literature The church has aureoled and sainted the men andwomen who have fought the Cosmic Urge. To do nothingand to be nothing was regarded as a virtue.The c …

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Five Babies by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: LiteratureAll success consists in this: you are doingsomething for somebody–are benefiting humanity;and the feeling of success comes from theconsciousness of …

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Uncle Joe And Aunt Melinda by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: LiteratureThe person who reasons from a falsepremise is always funny–to other folks.The opinion prevails all through the truly rural districts that the big ci …

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A Special Occasion by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: LiteratureAs the cities are all only two days from famine, sois man’s life constantly but a step from dissolution.Once on a day, I spoke at the Athenaeum, New …

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Cleopatra And Caesar by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: LiteratureWhen power and beauty meet, the world woulddo well to take to its cyclone-cellar.The sole surviving daughter of the great King Ptolemy of Egypt, Cle …

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Sam by Elbert Hubbard

Story type: LiteratureAnybody can order, but to serve with grace,tact and effectiveness is a fine art.In San Francisco lived a lawyer–age, sixty–rich in money, rich in in …

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Four Things

The world is supported by four things:

  • The learning of the wise
  • The justice of the great
  • The prayers of the righteous and
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But, all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Sun Rise

Every morning in Africa, when the Sun rises, a deer awakens, knowing it has to outrun the fastest lion, or, be hunted to death …

Every morning in Africa, when the Sun rises, a lion awakens, knowing it has to outrun the slowest deer, or, be starved to death …

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