Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 - 228 pages A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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Page 17
... youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers , and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery , and their literature to lust . It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect When a bit of sunshine hits ...
... youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers , and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery , and their literature to lust . It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect When a bit of sunshine hits ...
Page 20
... youth onwards , that competition is essential to the health and progress of the race . Or , as Herbert Spencer puts it , " Society flourishes by the antagonism of its atoms . " H , if they would only let you work . to work ? Do you know ...
... youth onwards , that competition is essential to the health and progress of the race . Or , as Herbert Spencer puts it , " Society flourishes by the antagonism of its atoms . " H , if they would only let you work . to work ? Do you know ...
Page 43
... youth ? It is easy to die . Men have died For a wish or a whim— From bravado or passion or pride , Was it harder for him ? But to live - every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt , While his friends met his conduct with doubt ...
... youth ? It is easy to die . Men have died For a wish or a whim— From bravado or passion or pride , Was it harder for him ? But to live - every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt , While his friends met his conduct with doubt ...
Page 45
... youth- ful bride , for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage . They should twine round the tomb , for their perpetually renew- ed beauty is a sym- bol of the resurrec- tion . They should festoon the altar , for their ...
... youth- ful bride , for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage . They should twine round the tomb , for their perpetually renew- ed beauty is a sym- bol of the resurrec- tion . They should festoon the altar , for their ...
Page 47
... youth , we had learned to despise , assume new terrors as we grow old . Our caution increasing as our years increase , fear becomes at last the pre- vailing passion of the mind , and the small remainder of H WHAT HAT if I differ from ...
... youth , we had learned to despise , assume new terrors as we grow old . Our caution increasing as our years increase , fear becomes at last the pre- vailing passion of the mind , and the small remainder of H WHAT HAT if I differ from ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord mankind Mary Baker Eddy matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue whole wind woman words youth Ꮽ Ꮽ