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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Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it ...
Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it ...
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Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience of the angels than I hope to have when I play my part upon the mimic stage . Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of ...
Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience of the angels than I hope to have when I play my part upon the mimic stage . Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of ...
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I care not a copper what his reputationor religion may be : if his babies dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water ...
I care not a copper what his reputationor religion may be : if his babies dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water ...
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66 LL higher motives , ideals , conceptions , sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life .
66 LL higher motives , ideals , conceptions , sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life .
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The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual incarnations .
The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual incarnations .
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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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