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 7
But ( and here is the moral of my story ) do we not , stupid drones that we are , conduct ourselves in the same manner toward the providence of God ? We have our petty and absurd projects , our small and narrow views , our rash designs ...
But ( and here is the moral of my story ) do we not , stupid drones that we are , conduct ourselves in the same manner toward the providence of God ? We have our petty and absurd projects , our small and narrow views , our rash designs ...
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... terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them which society imposes on him a constant source ...
... terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them which society imposes on him a constant source ...
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CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from ... should be ordered to believe in them as solid facts , and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality .
CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from ... should be ordered to believe in them as solid facts , and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality .
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80 80 HERE is but one virtue : to help human beings to free and beautiful life ; but one sin : to do them indifferent or cruel hurt ; the love of humanity is the whole of morality . This is Goodness , this is Humanism , this is the ...
80 80 HERE is but one virtue : to help human beings to free and beautiful life ; but one sin : to do them indifferent or cruel hurt ; the love of humanity is the whole of morality . This is Goodness , this is Humanism , this is 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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