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 56
... universe is its temple ; and those men who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encom- passed with it on every side . Now , this beauty is so precious , the enjoyment it gives so refined and pure , so ...
... universe is its temple ; and those men who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encom- passed with it on every side . Now , this beauty is so precious , the enjoyment it gives so refined and pure , so ...
Page 73
... universe in the midst of which we are placed , with its overwhelming immen- sities of suns and nebulae , of light and motion , are as they are , firstly , for the development of life culminating in man ; secondly , as a vast schoolhouse ...
... universe in the midst of which we are placed , with its overwhelming immen- sities of suns and nebulae , of light and motion , are as they are , firstly , for the development of life culminating in man ; secondly , as a vast schoolhouse ...
Page 90
... universe , the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature . The player on the other side is hidden from us . We know that his play is always fair , just , and patient . But also we know , to our cost , that he never overlooks ...
... universe , the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature . The player on the other side is hidden from us . We know that his play is always fair , just , and patient . But also we know , to our cost , that he never overlooks ...
Page 91
... universe of which we are all members - Nature having no Test - Acts o Those who take honors in Nature's uni- versity , who learn the laws which govern men and things and obey them , are the really great and successful men in this world ...
... universe of which we are all members - Nature having no Test - Acts o Those who take honors in Nature's uni- versity , who learn the laws which govern men and things and obey them , are the really great and successful men in this world ...
Page 95
... universe he ac- knowledged in everything around . And all this has passed away . Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark , bearing the seeds of life and death . The former were sown for you ; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple ...
... universe he ac- knowledged in everything around . And all this has passed away . Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark , bearing the seeds of life and death . The former were sown for you ; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple ...
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