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 11
... 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 were one minute ...
... 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 were one minute ...
Page 15
... 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 light- ness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me ...
... 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 light- ness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me ...
Page 16
... better half swal- lows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water , even though he prays occupy , is that of the Old Man of the Sea , riding on the poor man's back ; only , unlike ...
... better half swal- lows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water , even though he prays occupy , is that of the Old Man of the Sea , riding on the poor man's back ; only , unlike ...
Page 19
... better dis- charge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life . -Henry Ward Beecher . HE soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses ; it is in this fire that existence consists ; all the obser ...
... better dis- charge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life . -Henry Ward Beecher . HE soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses ; it is in this fire that existence consists ; all the obser ...
Page 22
... better than were found in those actual incarnations . Our statesman is not Alfred , nor Napo- leon , nor even Washington , but he is some yet mightier being with an infinite power and unknown name , his features not yet fully visible ...
... better than were found in those actual incarnations . Our statesman is not Alfred , nor Napo- leon , nor even Washington , but he is some yet mightier being with an infinite power and unknown name , his features not yet fully visible ...
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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