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 17
... nature had been pro- duced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out the destiny of man have seized these ...
... nature had been pro- duced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out the destiny of man have seized these ...
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... nature rightly , a man may some- times have a very small experience , provided he has a very large heart . - Bulwer - Lytton . GREAT deal of the joy of life con- sists in doing perfectly , or at least to the best of one's ability ...
... nature rightly , a man may some- times have a very small experience , provided he has a very large heart . - Bulwer - Lytton . GREAT deal of the joy of life con- sists in doing perfectly , or at least to the best of one's ability ...
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... nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore . I am glad that chil- dren should amuse themselves with nursery stories , but it is shocking ...
... nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore . I am glad that chil- dren should amuse themselves with nursery stories , but it is shocking ...
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... nature is capable ? Why , living on a farm which is one's own , far from the hectic , artificial conditions of the city - a farm where one gets directly from one's own soil what one needs to sustain life , with a garden in front and a ...
... nature is capable ? Why , living on a farm which is one's own , far from the hectic , artificial conditions of the city - a farm where one gets directly from one's own soil what one needs to sustain life , with a garden in front and a ...
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... nature toward its perfection , yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely , and each fol- lowed the other , and so on in an eternal circle , it is easy to see that there could never be any improvement among them . Men must ...
... nature toward its perfection , yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely , and each fol- lowed the other , and so on in an eternal circle , it is easy to see that there could never be any improvement among them . Men must ...
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