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
... 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 human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
... 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 human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
Page 30
... grown for ten years , especially if it claims to be the foundation of all human society . I am prepared to back human society against any idea , positive or negative , that can be brought into the field against it . - George Bernard ...
... grown for ten years , especially if it claims to be the foundation of all human society . I am prepared to back human society against any idea , positive or negative , that can be brought into the field against it . - George Bernard ...
Page 31
... grows out of their work , as the color petals out of a fruitful flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and vivifying to the soul as is the natural pulse to the body ...
... grows out of their work , as the color petals out of a fruitful flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and vivifying to the soul as is the natural pulse to the body ...
Page 34
... grow weaker , and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger . The struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe , and virtue will be triumphant . desert sand mark where they stood . In OH ! place of the ...
... grow weaker , and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger . The struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe , and virtue will be triumphant . desert sand mark where they stood . In OH ! place of the ...
Page 37
... growing ; A prophet's vision , understood ; In that strange spell of his bestowing , They dreamed , with him , of Brotherhood . " Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg , " O Art has become foolishly IT is the prime secret. ET me do my work each ...
... growing ; A prophet's vision , understood ; In that strange spell of his bestowing , They dreamed , with him , of Brotherhood . " Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg , " O Art has become foolishly IT is the prime secret. ET me do my work each ...
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