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 19
... existence consists ; all the obser- vations 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 . nature rightly , a man may some- times ...
... existence consists ; all the obser- vations 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 . nature rightly , a man may some- times ...
Page 38
... existence , be it only for an instant , to our own . And again , I doubt whether anything in the world can beautify a soul more spon- taneously , more naturally , than the knowledge that somewhere in its neigh- borhood 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 spon- taneously , more naturally , than the knowledge that somewhere in its neigh- borhood exists a pure and ...
Page 41
... existence . leading theology . Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion ; give them Nature . Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet . Rear them , if possible , amid pleasant surroundings . If ...
... existence . leading theology . Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion ; give them Nature . Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet . Rear them , if possible , amid pleasant surroundings . If ...
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... Chas . W. Eliot . Sleep hath its own world , a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence . - Byron . Reason is the life of the law . - Coke . HAT distinguishes war is , not that man is slain Page 42 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
... Chas . W. Eliot . Sleep hath its own world , a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence . - Byron . Reason is the life of the law . - Coke . HAT distinguishes war is , not that man is slain Page 42 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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... existence s Whence , then , is this increased love of life , which grows upon us with our years ? Whence comes it that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our existence at a period when it be- comes scarce worth the keeping ? Is it ...
... existence s Whence , then , is this increased love of life , which grows upon us with our years ? Whence comes it that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our existence at a period when it be- comes scarce worth the keeping ? Is it ...
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