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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... idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it ...
... idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it ...
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... ideas over the abyss of his own nescience . Such a philosopher is as dull and dry as you please ; it is he who brings his profession into disrepute , especially when he talks much about art , and so persuades people to read him ...
... ideas over the abyss of his own nescience . Such a philosopher is as dull and dry as you please ; it is he who brings his profession into disrepute , especially when he talks much about art , and so persuades people to read him ...
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... idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves . People are willing to help a man who can't help himself , but as soon as a man is able to help himself , and does it , they join in making his life as uncomfortable as ...
... idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves . People are willing to help a man who can't help himself , but as soon as a man is able to help himself , and does it , they join in making his life as uncomfortable as ...
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... ideas . - Madame De Stael . 30 30 O judge human nature rightly , a man may sometimes have a very small experience , provided he has a very large heart . - Bulwer - Lytton . Toju 80 90 GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing ...
... ideas . - Madame De Stael . 30 30 O judge human nature rightly , a man may sometimes have a very small experience , provided he has a very large heart . - Bulwer - Lytton . Toju 80 90 GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing ...
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... idea of this distinction so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery ; where we can not distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we take complacency in some ...
... idea of this distinction so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery ; where we can not distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we take complacency in some ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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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