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 13
It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive . It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy . It is to realize the oneness of humanity in true spiritual sympathy .
It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive . It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy . It is to realize the oneness of humanity in true spiritual sympathy .
Page 16
But if his children rush to the front door to meet him the and love's sunshine illuminates his fate of his wife every time footfall , you can take it for granted that he is pure , for his home is a heaven - and the humbug never gets ...
But if his children rush to the front door to meet him the and love's sunshine illuminates his fate of his wife every time footfall , you can take it for granted that he is pure , for his home is a heaven - and the humbug never gets ...
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Outside the sterile province of philosophy , what we meet at every step is unreason , folly and passion . The wise men of antiquity succeeded in winning to themselves some little authority only by impostures , which gave them a hold ...
Outside the sterile province of philosophy , what we meet at every step is unreason , folly and passion . The wise men of antiquity succeeded in winning to themselves some little authority only by impostures , which gave them a hold ...
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No burden except possibly the weight of many years bends his shoulders , and his eyes meet yours in honest fashion , because he neither fears , nor has been shamed , at the bar of his own soul . He never complains .
No burden except possibly the weight of many years bends his shoulders , and his eyes meet yours in honest fashion , because he neither fears , nor has been shamed , at the bar of his own soul . He never complains .
Page 63
It may take the form of a play of wit , sarcasm , satire , irony or the like ; in any case , it is certain to meet with a prompt response from the average audience . Comedy which is the term under which we class the different forms of ...
It may take the form of a play of wit , sarcasm , satire , irony or the like ; in any case , it is certain to meet with a prompt response from the average audience . Comedy which is the term under which we class the different forms of ...
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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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