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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... 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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An artistic Prometheus , he stole the celestial fire , and with it put life into what was inert , and expressed the immaterial and evasive sides of nature in his breathing forms . - Emile Michel . TEP by step my investigation of ...
An artistic Prometheus , he stole the celestial fire , and with it put life into what was inert , and expressed the immaterial and evasive sides of nature in his breathing forms . - Emile Michel . TEP by step my investigation of ...
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The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures , and the force that is in every atom and in every star— in everything that lives and grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of ...
The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures , and the force that is in every atom and in every star— in everything that lives and grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of ...
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Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures ...
Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures ...
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... and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow ...
... and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow ...
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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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