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 lovable- ness of nature that I learn from Thee . May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all high souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from ...
... person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovable- ness of nature that I learn from Thee . May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all high souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from ...
Page 22
... persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like star- dust , 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 star- dust , 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 To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such pre- dicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and con- tentious ...
... person , take each a To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such pre- dicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and con- tentious ...
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