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 37
... sweet ; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still . -Max Ehrmann . R EADING is to the mind what exer- cise is to the body . As by the one , health is preserved , strengthened and invigorated : by the other , virtue ( which is ...
... sweet ; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still . -Max Ehrmann . R EADING is to the mind what exer- cise is to the body . As by the one , health is preserved , strengthened and invigorated : by the other , virtue ( which is ...
Page 41
... sweet . Rear them , if possible , amid pleasant surroundings . If they come into the world with souls groping in darkness , let them see and feel the light . Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after- world . Never was ...
... sweet . Rear them , if possible , amid pleasant surroundings . If they come into the world with souls groping in darkness , let them see and feel the light . Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after- world . Never was ...
Page 49
... sweet terror , for the Lord God is coming down upon us . He is standing before me and touching my body , so that I have to close my eyes in a terror of shuddering ecstacy . That is long , long ago , and is all past and done with , as ...
... sweet terror , for the Lord God is coming down upon us . He is standing before me and touching my body , so that I have to close my eyes in a terror of shuddering ecstacy . That is long , long ago , and is all past and done with , as ...
Page 63
... sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike , will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide , and sweet valleys in whose silence I may weep undis- turbed . She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness ...
... sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike , will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide , and sweet valleys in whose silence I may weep undis- turbed . She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness ...
Page 65
... sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; DO not think that I exag- gerate the importance or the charms of pedestrian- ism , or our need as a people to cultivate the art . I think it would tend to soften the national man- ners ...
... sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; DO not think that I exag- gerate the importance or the charms of pedestrian- ism , or our need as a people to cultivate the art . I think it would tend to soften the national man- ners ...
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