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 19
... happy : We may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do- the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself , and do that which happens to be the easiest . If you are idle or sick or poor ...
... happy : We may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do- the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself , and do that which happens to be the easiest . If you are idle or sick or poor ...
Page 21
... happy ? How many are truly happy ? I ' ve studied people in all classes and condi- tions , and everywhere I have found , when you get below the surface , that it is mostly the insincere individual who says , ' ' I am happy . " Nearly ...
... happy ? How many are truly happy ? I ' ve studied people in all classes and condi- tions , and everywhere I have found , when you get below the surface , that it is mostly the insincere individual who says , ' ' I am happy . " Nearly ...
Page 35
... happy in the receipt of an increased income . Manufacturers , merchants , con- tractors for military stores , will hurry joyously about their business , in the hope of double receipts . All sorts of Government officials will buzz about ...
... happy in the receipt of an increased income . Manufacturers , merchants , con- tractors for military stores , will hurry joyously about their business , in the hope of double receipts . All sorts of Government officials will buzz about ...
Page 36
... happy world there must be pain and sor- row , and in a moral world the knowl- edge of evil is in- dispensable . The stern necessity of this has been proved to inhere in the innermost con- stitution of the human soul . It is part and ...
... happy world there must be pain and sor- row , and in a moral world the knowl- edge of evil is in- dispensable . The stern necessity of this has been proved to inhere in the innermost con- stitution of the human soul . It is part and ...
Page 37
... happy chance ; The man , the place , were God's own seeking ; The words are our inheritance . A pause , a hush , a wonder growing ; A prophet's vision , understood ; In that strange spell of his bestowing , They dreamed , with him , of ...
... happy chance ; The man , the place , were God's own seeking ; The words are our inheritance . A pause , a hush , a wonder growing ; A prophet's vision , understood ; In that strange spell of his bestowing , They dreamed , with him , of ...
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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