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 17
... when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger , which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still , in spite of all , the child of God . -Phillips Brooks .
... when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger , which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still , in spite of all , the child of God . -Phillips Brooks .
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... for disillusion and disappointment that have cleared my vision and spurred my desire ; for strong appetites and passions and the power they give when under pressure and control ; for my imperfections that give me the keen delight of ...
... for disillusion and disappointment that have cleared my vision and spurred my desire ; for strong appetites and passions and the power they give when under pressure and control ; for my imperfections that give me the keen delight of ...
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By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ; we do not refer to the desires ... She takes it for granted that we desire what we are headed toward , and she helps us to it .
By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ; we do not refer to the desires ... She takes it for granted that we desire what we are headed toward , and she helps us to it .
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I pray for your desires that they may be great , rather than for your satisfactions , which may be so hazardously little ... The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for ...
I pray for your desires that they may be great , rather than for your satisfactions , which may be so hazardously little ... The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for ...
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... and when we come o a time when we realize just what the her fellow is suffering we will be moved y the desire to help him , and when we e moved by the desire to help him we me to a time when we see that this elp must be administered ...
... and when we come o a time when we realize just what the her fellow is suffering we will be moved y the desire to help him , and when we e moved by the desire to help him we me to a time when we see that this elp must be administered ...
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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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