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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... causing us suffering , He is doing all this to deliver us , to open the Infinite to us . - Victor Hugo . Serene , I fold my hands and wait , Nor. ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK ...
... causing us suffering , He is doing all this to deliver us , to open the Infinite to us . - Victor Hugo . Serene , I fold my hands and wait , Nor. ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK ...
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... baseness , servility , and cruel indifference to suffering in order to enjoy a miserable tuppence worth of social position , piety , comfort , and domestic affection , of which he , too , is often ironically defrauded by Fate .
... baseness , servility , and cruel indifference to suffering in order to enjoy a miserable tuppence worth of social position , piety , comfort , and domestic affection , of which he , too , is often ironically defrauded by Fate .
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One looks only for violent conquest ; the other for the relief of suffering humanity . The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all ...
One looks only for violent conquest ; the other for the relief of suffering humanity . The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all ...
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Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
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But being in a strike , seeing all the people suffer , seeing all the cruelty - it makes things look different .... " The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible . Well , we Jews have got a story too - perhaps it's in ...
But being in a strike , seeing all the people suffer , seeing all the cruelty - it makes things look different .... " The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible . Well , we Jews have got a story too - perhaps it's in ...
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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 |
| Contributor | Wm. H. Wise & Co |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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