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 28
... sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon force you from the rock to which you cling . The silence , the sheer depth , the gloom , burden you . It is a relief to feel the firm earth beneath your feet again , as you ...
... sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon force you from the rock to which you cling . The silence , the sheer depth , the gloom , burden you . It is a relief to feel the firm earth beneath your feet again , as you ...
Page 31
... sense of a compelling power is joined with rectitude of action . The truly honest man , here and there to be found , is not only without thought of legal , religious , unshod ; N supplying the men for the carnage of a battlefield ...
... sense of a compelling power is joined with rectitude of action . The truly honest man , here and there to be found , is not only without thought of legal , religious , unshod ; N supplying the men for the carnage of a battlefield ...
Page 36
... sense - would presumably reply , " The will to put him- self in the place of others ; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil ; the power to do what seems to him to be right , without considering ...
... sense - would presumably reply , " The will to put him- self in the place of others ; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil ; the power to do what seems to him to be right , without considering ...
Page 41
... sense of the eternal now , of the immortal . Full aware that all has failed , yet , side by side with the sadness of that knowledge , there lives on in me an unquenchable belief , thought burning like the sun , that there is yet ...
... sense of the eternal now , of the immortal . Full aware that all has failed , yet , side by side with the sadness of that knowledge , there lives on in me an unquenchable belief , thought burning like the sun , that there is yet ...
Page 42
... senses by the summary process of shouting at them in the streets and in Trafalgar Square . John Ruskin's writing began with Modern Painters , Carlyle began with literary studies of German culture and the like ; both were driven to ...
... senses by the summary process of shouting at them in the streets and in Trafalgar Square . John Ruskin's writing began with Modern Painters , Carlyle began with literary studies of German culture and the like ; both were driven to ...
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