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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... and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth . But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books , exempted from the wrong of time , and capable of perpetual renovation Neither are they fitly to be called images ...
... and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth . But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books , exempted from the wrong of time , and capable of perpetual renovation Neither are they fitly to be called images ...
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But the obvious golden truth is that co - operation is good and competition bad , and that society flourishes by the mutual aid of human beings . I say that is obvious , and so it is . And it is so well known that in all great military ...
But the obvious golden truth is that co - operation is good and competition bad , and that society flourishes by the mutual aid of human beings . I say that is obvious , and so it is . And it is so well known that in all great military ...
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All great truths are persistent . Each form of right is a growing form . All high ideals will be realized ... I will be as harsh as Truth , and as uncompromising as Justice . On this subject I do not wish to think , or speak , or write ...
All great truths are persistent . Each form of right is a growing form . All high ideals will be realized ... I will be as harsh as Truth , and as uncompromising as Justice . On this subject I do not wish to think , or speak , or write ...
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J D LL truth is safe and nothing else is winked ; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its own dungeon the limits of the universe , and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence .
J D LL truth is safe and nothing else is winked ; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its own dungeon the limits of the universe , and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence .
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He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic . There is always a reason , in the man , for his good or bad fortune ; and so , in making money . Men talk as it there were some magic about this , and believe in magic , in all ...
He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic . There is always a reason , in the man , for his good or bad fortune ; and so , in making money . Men talk as it there were some magic about this , and believe in magic , in all ...
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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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