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 15
... pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thou- sands of human be- ings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by ...
... pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thou- sands of human be- ings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by ...
Page 37
... pleasures . Social reformers and tem- perance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabuing all pleasures . They ought to distinguish between those that have a tendency to excess ...
... pleasures . Social reformers and tem- perance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabuing all pleasures . They ought to distinguish between those that have a tendency to excess ...
Page 39
... pleasures of old age , that of agriculture is chief among them To dig in the mellow soil - to dig mod- erately , for all pleasure should be taken sparingly - is a great thing . One gets strength out of the ground as often as one touches ...
... pleasures of old age , that of agriculture is chief among them To dig in the mellow soil - to dig mod- erately , for all pleasure should be taken sparingly - is a great thing . One gets strength out of the ground as often as one touches ...
Page 47
... pleasure , equips imag- ination in the spoil ? Life would be insup- portable to an old man , who loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigor of manhood : the numberless calamities of decaying Na- ture , and the ...
... pleasure , equips imag- ination in the spoil ? Life would be insup- portable to an old man , who loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigor of manhood : the numberless calamities of decaying Na- ture , and the ...
Page 53
... pleasure , and that and Nature incompre- hensible apart from man . For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals , and the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that ...
... pleasure , and that and Nature incompre- hensible apart from man . For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals , and the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that ...
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