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 9
... existence of the true villain - the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them ...
... existence of the true villain - the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them ...
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... existence consists ; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this me , the center and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas . - Madame De Stael . 30 30 O judge human nature rightly , a man ...
... existence consists ; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this me , the center and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas . - Madame De Stael . 30 30 O judge human nature rightly , a man ...
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... existence in to two portions , -the one , belonging to the earthly , is silent in the perfect stillness of night ; whilst the other alone comes forth in sublimity , pomp , and majesty . Viewed in this light , the starry heavens truly ...
... existence in to two portions , -the one , belonging to the earthly , is silent in the perfect stillness of night ; whilst the other alone comes forth in sublimity , pomp , and majesty . Viewed in this light , the starry heavens truly ...
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... existence unknown and inconceivable ! The alternative is clear : on the one hand a world with sin and suffering , on the other hand an unthinkable world in which conscious life does not involve contrast . We do not find that evil has ...
... existence unknown and inconceivable ! The alternative is clear : on the one hand a world with sin and suffering , on the other hand an unthinkable world in which conscious life does not involve contrast . We do not find that evil has ...
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... existence , be it only for an instant , to our own . And again , I doubt whether anything in the world can beautify a soul more spontaneously , more naturally , than the knowledge that somewhere in its neighborhood exists a pure and ...
... existence , be it only for an instant , to our own . And again , I doubt whether anything in the world can beautify a soul more spontaneously , more naturally , than the knowledge that somewhere in its neighborhood exists a pure and ...
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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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