The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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“He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.”
Hubbard, Elbert (1922). Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard. V. Wm. H. Wise & Co./The Roycrofters. p. 237.
Often quoted as "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
Also: A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them. (As quoted in Reader's Digest (October 1927) http://archive.org/details/ReadersDigestno.66October1927, p. 343).
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
"J.B. Runs Things," Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923) [Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766103978], p. 278.
“Life is just one damn thing after another.”
Attributed in Items of Interest, Vol. 33 (1911), p. 8
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 159.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 156.
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“If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?”
A Message to Garcia (1899)
“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
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The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=MaVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22editor+a+person+employed+on+a+newspaper%22+%22whose+business+it+is+to+separate+the+wheat+from+the+chaff+and+to+see+that+the+chaff+is+printed%22&pg=PA810#v=onepage (May 1913)
The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQLpQ2SAIeQC&q=%22Editor+1+a+person+employed+on+a+newspaper+whose+business+it+is+to+separate+the+wheat+from+the+chaff+and+to+see+that+the+chaff+is+printed%22&pg=PA46#v=onepage (1914).
Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations https://books.google.com/books?id=MtciwlIG3sMC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=adlai+chaff+elbert#v=onepage&q=adlai%20chaff%20elbert&f=false (1997), see Adlai Stevenson for a later variation
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 16.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 15.
The Philistine magazine, August 1901 http://books.google.com/books?id=xxI8AQAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+something+that+is+much+more+scarce+something+finer+far+something+rarer+than+ability+It+is+the+ability+to+recognize+ability+The+sternest+comment+that+can+be+made+against+employers+as+a+class+lies+in+the+fact+that+men+of+Ability+usually+succeed+in+showing+their+worth+in+spite+of+their+employer+and+not+with+his+assistance+and+encouragement%22&pg=PA87#v=onepage
"The Crying Need", in A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things (1901), p. 163 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSo3AAAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+something+that+is+much+more+scarce+something+finer+far+something+rarer+than+ability+It+is+the+ability+to+recognize+ability+The+sternest+comment+that+can+be+made+against+employers+as+a+class+lies+in+the+fact+that+men+of+Ability+usually+succeed+in+showing+their+worth+in+spite+of+their+employer+and+not+with+his+assistance+and+encouragement%22&pg=PA163#v=onepage
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 146.
“It is only life and love that give love and life.”
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 40.
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 52
“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998) ISBN 0766104168, 9780766104167
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12