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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... in the 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 ...
... in the 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 ...
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Je HE soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses ; it is in this fire that existence consists ; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this me , the center and moving power of our ...
Je HE soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses ; it is in this fire that existence consists ; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this me , the center and moving power of our ...
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-Ernest Renan . is a sublime spectacle when in the stillness of the night , in an unclouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it were divide existence in to two portions , -the one , belonging to the ...
-Ernest Renan . is a sublime spectacle when in the stillness of the night , in an unclouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it were divide existence in to two portions , -the one , belonging to the ...
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... and accept some form of 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 .
... and accept some form of 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 .
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When the soul has veritably drawn near to such a being , beauty is no longer a lovely , lifeless thing that one exhibits to the stranger , for it suddenly takes unto itself an imperious existence , and its activity becomes so natural as ...
When the soul has veritably drawn near to such a being , beauty is no longer a lovely , lifeless thing that one exhibits to the stranger , for it suddenly takes unto itself an imperious existence , and its activity becomes so natural as ...
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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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