Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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Page 5
... becomes stale - But when will it do so ? NeverWhen a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the two - and - thirty Palaces . ' How happy is such ...
... becomes stale - But when will it do so ? NeverWhen a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the two - and - thirty Palaces . ' How happy is such ...
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... become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown clearer round us ...
... become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown clearer round us ...
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... becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living , with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger ...
... becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living , with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger ...
Page 19
... know . It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art . The smallest thing , well done , becomes artistic . -William Mathews . Tis undeniable that the great quest of humanity is happiness SCRAP BOOK Page 19.
... know . It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art . The smallest thing , well done , becomes artistic . -William Mathews . Tis undeniable that the great quest of humanity is happiness SCRAP BOOK Page 19.
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... become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless ...
... become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless ...
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| Title | Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1 Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Elbert Hubbard |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Compiled by | Elbert Hubbard |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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