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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I had an 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 ...
I had an 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 ...
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... and criticisms , and , having pieced an illusory humanity and art out of the effects produced by his library upon his imagination , build some silly systematization of his worthless ideas over the abyss of his own nescience .
... and criticisms , and , having pieced an illusory humanity and art out of the effects produced by his library upon his imagination , build some silly systematization of his worthless ideas over the abyss of his own nescience .
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There is nothing in the 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 ...
There is nothing in the 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 ...
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... the center and moving power of our sentiments and our 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 .
... the center and moving power of our sentiments and our 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 .
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It is this passion that drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves , and that tends to make whatever excites in a man the idea of this distinction so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very ...
It is this passion that drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves , and that tends to make whatever excites in a man the idea of this distinction so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very ...
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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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