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 10
... person and generalize about the affections from a single instance unless , indeed , you have the rare happiness to stumble at first upon an all - enlightening instance . You must have no convictions , because as Nietzsche puts it ...
... person and generalize about the affections from a single instance unless , indeed , you have the rare happiness to stumble at first upon an all - enlightening instance . You must have no convictions , because as Nietzsche puts it ...
Page 15
... 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 , are purchased at the ...
... 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 , are purchased at the ...
Page 22
... persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or ...
... persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or ...
Page 27
... person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago , he would suddenly find himself with one or two ...
... person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago , he would suddenly find himself with one or two ...
Page 33
... person , take each a Tobacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one another's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such predicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and contentious centuries ...
... person , take each a Tobacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one another's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such predicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and contentious centuries ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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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