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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When the drone saw that I wished to capture it , it lost its head completely ; it bounded furiously against the glass panes , as though it would smash them , took a fresh start , and dashed itself again and again against the glass .
When the drone saw that I wished to capture it , it lost its head completely ; it bounded furiously against the glass panes , as though it would smash them , took a fresh start , and dashed itself again and again against the glass .
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... and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow ...
... and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow ...
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30 30 HE only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is the encouraging him to think for himself , instead of endeavoring to instil ready - made opinions into his head . Sir Leslie Stephen .
30 30 HE only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is the encouraging him to think for himself , instead of endeavoring to instil ready - made opinions into his head . Sir Leslie Stephen .
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody , but unbowed . Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the Shade , And yet the menace of the years Finds , and shall find , me unafraid . It matters not how strait ...
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody , but unbowed . Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the Shade , And yet the menace of the years Finds , and shall find , me unafraid . It matters not how strait ...
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People little realize that their desires are their perpetual prayers - not head prayers , but heart prayers - and that they are granted . Most people do not half realize how sacred a thing a legitimate ambition is .
People little realize that their desires are their perpetual prayers - not head prayers , but heart prayers - and that they are granted . Most people do not half realize how sacred a thing a legitimate ambition is .
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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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