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 thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears inspired by ...
... pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears inspired by ...
Page 37
... pleasures . Social reformers and temperance 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 and ...
... pleasures . Social reformers and temperance 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 and ...
Page 39
... pleasures of old age , that of agriculture is chief among them se To dig in the mellow soil - to dig moderately , for all pleasure should be taken sparingly - is a great thing . One gets strength out of the ground as often as one ...
... pleasures of old age , that of agriculture is chief among them se To dig in the mellow soil - to dig moderately , for all pleasure should be taken sparingly - is a great thing . One gets strength out of the ground as often as one ...
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... pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ? Life would be insupportable to an old man , who loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigor of manhood : the numberless calamities of decaying Nature , and the ...
... pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ? Life would be insupportable to an old man , who loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigor of manhood : the numberless calamities of decaying Nature , and the ...
Page 53
... and higher . It is only in wide public affairs , where money is a moving force toward the general welfare , that the possessor of it can possibly find pleasure , and that EOPLE say to me , Well , Lyeff Nikolaevitch , SCRAP BOOK Page 53.
... and higher . It is only in wide public affairs , where money is a moving force toward the general welfare , that the possessor of it can possibly find pleasure , and that EOPLE say to me , Well , Lyeff Nikolaevitch , SCRAP BOOK Page 53.
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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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