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 12
... the forces of darkness - the power which , though never completely victorious , is continuously conquering . The very fact that we are still here carrying on the contest against the hosts of annihilation proves that on the whole the ...
... the forces of darkness - the power which , though never completely victorious , is continuously conquering . The very fact that we are still here carrying on the contest against the hosts of annihilation proves that on the whole the ...
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The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures , and the force that is in every atom and in every star— in everything that lives and grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of ...
The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures , and the force that is in every atom and in every star— in everything that lives and grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of ...
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It is almost as if a new sort of human nature had been produced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out ...
It is almost as if a new sort of human nature had been produced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out ...
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... and his good qualities will count for but little ; while , of course , if he is mean , cruel or wicked , then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society .
... and his good qualities will count for but little ; while , of course , if he is mean , cruel or wicked , then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society .
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It is the urge , the push in the great force within us , which is perpetually prodding us to do our best and refuses to accept our second best . -Orison Swett Marden . I T is a curious reflection that the ordinary private person who ...
It is the urge , the push in the great force within us , which is perpetually prodding us to do our best and refuses to accept our second best . -Orison Swett Marden . I T is a curious reflection that the ordinary private person who ...
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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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