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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So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
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66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from egotism , self - pity ...
66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls . Save me from the bogs of pettiness , from egotism , self - pity ...
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... For the sweet silence of the plain ,For bounty springing from the sod , For every step by beauty trod , — For each dear gift of joy , thank God ! " For Joy , " by Florence Earle Coates Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ,.
... For the sweet silence of the plain ,For bounty springing from the sod , For every step by beauty trod , — For each dear gift of joy , thank God ! " For Joy , " by Florence Earle Coates Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ,.
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... for ye are A beauty and a mystery , and create In us such love and reverence from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named themselves a star . " Stars , " by Lord Byron HAT we have a right to expect of the American.
... for ye are A beauty and a mystery , and create In us such love and reverence from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named themselves a star . " Stars , " by Lord Byron HAT we have a right to expect of the American.
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... its overpowering grandeur , and at the same time , its inexpressible beauty ? Look yonder ! Those are the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone . They are not the grandest in the world , but there are none more beautiful .
... its overpowering grandeur , and at the same time , its inexpressible beauty ? Look yonder ! Those are the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone . They are not the grandest in the world , but there are none more beautiful .
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| Title | Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1 Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Elbert Hubbard |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Compiled by | Elbert Hubbard |
| Contributor | Wm. H. Wise & Co |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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