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Elbert Green Hubbard est un artiste, écrivain et philosophe américain mais aussi « un philosophe, un vendeur de savon, entrepreneur, artiste vaudeville, bohème, bigame, cavalier, humoriste, imprimeur, romancier, moraliste, agriculteur, égoïste, menteur, plagiaire, fervent partisan de la grande entreprise, avide défenseur des droits individuels, anti-intellectuelle, défenseur des arts, machiste, pro-féministe », selon IY Hashimoto du Whitman College.

Il a influencé le mouvement des Arts & Crafts et est resté célèbre pour son essai Message à Garcia. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. juin 1856 – 7. mai 1915   •   Autres noms Elbert Green Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard: Citations en anglais

“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

“[chaff] 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.”

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

“Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 16.

“And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 15.

“There 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.”

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

“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

“Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.”

Elbert Hubbard, in his essay on Booker T. Washington in Little Journeys For 1908, p. 21; Franklin D. Roosevelt later used this line on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved".