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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We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness 9 20 The men who felled the forests , cultivated the earth , spanned the rivers with bridges of steel , built the railways and canals , the great ships , invented the locomotives ...
We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness 9 20 The men who felled the forests , cultivated the earth , spanned the rivers with bridges of steel , built the railways and canals , the great ships , invented the locomotives ...
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Have pity when there is still time , believe me , that is right . I was once for example , employed as a watchman , at a country place which belonged to an engineer , not far from the city of Tomsk , in Siberia .
Have pity when there is still time , believe me , that is right . I was once for example , employed as a watchman , at a country place which belonged to an engineer , not far from the city of Tomsk , in Siberia .
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I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York . When we began , the skirt - finishers was out . They lost their strike . They went hungry just the way we did , but nobody helped them .
I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York . When we began , the skirt - finishers was out . They lost their strike . They went hungry just the way we did , but nobody helped them .
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We do not believe that a house divided against itself shall stand ; we believe that it shall falls H , if they would only let you work . able to work ? Do you know the real thing that puts people in their little hospital cots with ...
We do not believe that a house divided against itself shall stand ; we believe that it shall falls H , if they would only let you work . able to work ? Do you know the real thing that puts people in their little hospital cots with ...
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Men talk as it there were some magic about this , and believe in magic , in all parts of life . He knows that all goes on the old road , pound for pound , cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another ...
Men talk as it there were some magic about this , and believe in magic , in all parts of life . He knows that all goes on the old road , pound for pound , cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another ...
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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 |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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