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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E are taught , many of us , from our youth onwards , that competition is essential to the health and progress of the race . Or , as Herbert Spencer puts it , " Society flourishes by the antagonism of its atoms .
E are taught , many of us , from our youth onwards , that competition is essential to the health and progress of the race . Or , as Herbert Spencer puts it , " Society flourishes by the antagonism of its atoms .
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... than has been experienced by the men who cover it ; but , in the months of rearing that follow , the women of the race go through a long , patiently endured strain which no knapsacked soldier on his longest march has ever more than ...
... than has been experienced by the men who cover it ; but , in the months of rearing that follow , the women of the race go through a long , patiently endured strain which no knapsacked soldier on his longest march has ever more than ...
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Herodotus , the father of history , tells the story of the human race in the Valley of the Euphrates de He says that with poor cultivation those who tilled the soil there got a yield of fiftyfold , with fair cultivation one hundredfold ...
Herodotus , the father of history , tells the story of the human race in the Valley of the Euphrates de He says that with poor cultivation those who tilled the soil there got a yield of fiftyfold , with fair cultivation one hundredfold ...
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The crest and crowning of all good , Life's final star , is Brotherhood ; For it will bring again to earth Her long - lost Poesy and Mirth : Will send new light on every face , A kingly power upon the race . And till it comes , we men ...
The crest and crowning of all good , Life's final star , is Brotherhood ; For it will bring again to earth Her long - lost Poesy and Mirth : Will send new light on every face , A kingly power upon the race . And till it comes , we men ...
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What would have been the moral value or significance of a race of human beings ignorant of sin , and doing beneficent acts with no more consciousness or volition than the deftly contrived machine that picks up raw material at one end ...
What would have been the moral value or significance of a race of human beings ignorant of sin , and doing beneficent acts with no more consciousness or volition than the deftly contrived machine that picks up raw material at one end ...
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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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