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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ORATORY offers the acme of human delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intoxicates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind . There is nothing greater on this earth .
ORATORY offers the acme of human delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intoxicates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind . There is nothing greater on this earth .
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66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from egotism , self - pity ...
66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from egotism , self - pity ...
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30 30 EN are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders ; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes .
30 30 EN are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders ; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes .
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We presume to have insight into divine things , and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine . -Friedrich Froebel . 30 800 BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage ; a good man— ...
We presume to have insight into divine things , and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine . -Friedrich Froebel . 30 800 BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage ; a good man— ...
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Not often in a nation's story , Such words supreme , such manhood fine ; He gave that day our grief and glory The dignity of things divine . ( Concluded on next page ) M Brief , so brief — the words were falling.
Not often in a nation's story , Such words supreme , such manhood fine ; He gave that day our grief and glory The dignity of things divine . ( Concluded on next page ) M Brief , so brief — the words were falling.
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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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