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 29
... falls back ; he who stops is overwhelmed , 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 ...
... falls back ; he who stops is overwhelmed , 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 ...
Page 30
... fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth . Not always shall you be what you are now e J You are going forward toward some- thing great ...
... fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth . Not always shall you be what you are now e J You are going forward toward some- thing great ...
Page 35
... fall , may it be with my face to the foe , fighting manfully , and falling , fling to the host behind , -play up , play up , and play the game . " The Op- timist's Prayer , " by William J. Rob- inson . O peal , HE bells will long ...
... fall , may it be with my face to the foe , fighting manfully , and falling , fling to the host behind , -play up , play up , and play the game . " The Op- timist's Prayer , " by William J. Rob- inson . O peal , HE bells will long ...
Page 36
... he would himself recoil ; the power to do what seems to him to be right , without considering what others may say or think . " - John Galsworthy . Brief , so brief - the words were falling Ere. Page 36 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
... he would himself recoil ; the power to do what seems to him to be right , without considering what others may say or think . " - John Galsworthy . Brief , so brief - the words were falling Ere. Page 36 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
Page 37
... falling Ere men had time to note and weigh ; As if again the gods were calling From some Homeric yesterday . No impulse this , no actor speaking Of thoughts which came by happy chance ; The man , the place , were God's own seeking ; The ...
... falling Ere men had time to note and weigh ; As if again the gods were calling From some Homeric yesterday . No impulse this , no actor speaking Of thoughts which came by happy chance ; The man , the place , were God's own seeking ; The ...
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