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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... mind is not hood- winked ; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its own dungeon the limits of the uni- verse , and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence . -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . HE ...
... mind is not hood- winked ; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its own dungeon the limits of the uni- verse , and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence . -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . HE ...
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... minds , we should be enriched by im- pressions that in our usual attent and mastering attitude we refuse to heed ... mind . From our present standpoint we may fairly ask , what would have been the worth of that primitive innocence ...
... minds , we should be enriched by im- pressions that in our usual attent and mastering attitude we refuse to heed ... mind . From our present standpoint we may fairly ask , what would have been the worth of that primitive innocence ...
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... mind what exer- cise is to the body . As by the one , health is preserved , strengthened and invigorated : by the other , virtue ( which is the health of the mind ) is kept alive , cherished and confirmed . - Addison . by Harrison D ...
... mind what exer- cise is to the body . As by the one , health is preserved , strengthened and invigorated : by the other , virtue ( which is the health of the mind ) is kept alive , cherished and confirmed . - Addison . by Harrison D ...
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... mind has a thousand eyes , And the heart but one , Yet the light of a whole life dies When its love is done . -Francis W. Bourdillon is the commonest delight of the race , the most satisfactory thing a man can do . When Cicero writes of ...
... mind has a thousand eyes , And the heart but one , Yet the light of a whole life dies When its love is done . -Francis W. Bourdillon is the commonest delight of the race , the most satisfactory thing a man can do . When Cicero writes of ...
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... mind craves a change , and it often does well the unusual thing , out of the routines do 66 66 " Letting well enough alone " is a foolish motto in the life of a man who wants to get ahead . In the first place , nothing is well enough ...
... mind craves a change , and it often does well the unusual thing , out of the routines do 66 66 " Letting well enough alone " is a foolish motto in the life of a man who wants to get ahead . In the first place , nothing is well enough ...
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