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 24
... become a good man by being a good boy - not a goody- goody boy , but just a plain good boy . I do not mean that he must love only the negative virtues ; I mean that he must love the positive virtues also . " Good , " in the largest ...
... become a good man by being a good boy - not a goody- goody boy , but just a plain good boy . I do not mean that he must love only the negative virtues ; I mean that he must love the positive virtues also . " Good , " in the largest ...
Page 29
... distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
... distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
Page 35
... becomes so great that there are not hands enough left to pick them up , and when the air is so infected with the putrefying scent of the " food for powder " that even the authorities find it disagreeable , a truce will be made , the ...
... becomes so great that there are not hands enough left to pick them up , and when the air is so infected with the putrefying scent of the " food for powder " that even the authorities find it disagreeable , a truce will be made , the ...
Page 37
... become foolishly IT is the prime secret. ET me do my work each day ; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me , may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times . May I still remember the bright ...
... become foolishly IT is the prime secret. ET me do my work each day ; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me , may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times . May I still remember the bright ...
Page 38
... becomes so natural as to be henceforth irresistible . - Maeterlinck . Road that you are to pass nothing , reject ... become that not only have we forgotten our dreams , but we have actually grown ashamed of them . Proverbially there ...
... becomes so natural as to be henceforth irresistible . - Maeterlinck . Road that you are to pass nothing , reject ... become that not only have we forgotten our dreams , but we have actually grown ashamed of them . Proverbially there ...
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