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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My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence , and , behold , the outer day - lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness . At first I was most unhappy ; but deeper study restored my confidence By learning the ...
My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence , and , behold , the outer day - lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness . At first I was most unhappy ; but deeper study restored my confidence By learning the ...
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... the men who have lengthened life and conquered pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have ...
... the men who have lengthened life and conquered pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have ...
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30 30 the commonest human clay ; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow , even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face . — Balzac . HE place to take the true measure ...
30 30 the commonest human clay ; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow , even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face . — Balzac . HE place to take the true measure ...
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Two lights are seen in your horizon -one the fast fading marsh light of power , and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood . Two ways lie open for you - one leading to an even lower and lower plain , where are heard the ...
Two lights are seen in your horizon -one the fast fading marsh light of power , and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood . Two ways lie open for you - one leading to an even lower and lower plain , where are heard the ...
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Viewed in this light , the starry heavens truly exercise a moral influence over us ; and who can readily stray into the paths of immorality if he has been accustomed to live amidst such thoughts and feelings , and frequently ...
Viewed in this light , the starry heavens truly exercise a moral influence over us ; and who can readily stray into the paths of immorality if he has been accustomed to live amidst such thoughts and feelings , and frequently ...
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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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