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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... and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale - But when will it do so ? NeverWhen a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual ...
... and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale - But when will it do so ? NeverWhen a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual ...
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Things have 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 ...
Things have 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 ...
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30 900 B AD will be the day for every man when he 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 ...
30 900 B AD will be the day for every man when he 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 ...
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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.
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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There is no perfect statesman , or poet , or artist , but the virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought .
There is no perfect statesman , or poet , or artist , but the virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought .
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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 |
| Contributor | Wm. H. Wise & Co |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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