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 5
... becomes stale - But when will it do so ? Never- When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a start- ing - post towards all the two - and - thirty Palaces . ' How happy is ...
... becomes stale - But when will it do so ? Never- When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a start- ing - post towards all the two - and - thirty Palaces . ' How happy is ...
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... become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . ” More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . 66 What dost thou see ? " says the Jung- frau s 66 Things seem to have grown clearer ...
... become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . ” More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . 66 What dost thou see ? " says the Jung- frau s 66 Things seem to have grown clearer ...
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... becomes absolutely con- tented with the life that he is living , with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do some- thing ...
... becomes absolutely con- tented with the life that he is living , with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do some- thing ...
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... conscientious completeness which turns work into art . The smallest thing , well done , becomes artistic . —William Mathews . E are taught , many of us , from our SCRAP BOOK Page 19 a little girl. It's about the Promised ...
... conscientious completeness which turns work into art . The smallest thing , well done , becomes artistic . —William Mathews . E are taught , many of us , from our SCRAP BOOK Page 19 a little girl. It's about the Promised ...
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... become detached , and like star- dust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some ...
... become detached , and like star- dust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord mankind Mary Baker Eddy matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue whole wind woman words youth Ꮽ Ꮽ