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 7
... body , contracted by my fingers , strained itself with all its strength in an attempt to sting me . But I ignored its protestations , and , stretching my hand out the window , opened the napkin . For a moment the drone seemed stunned ...
... body , contracted by my fingers , strained itself with all its strength in an attempt to sting me . But I ignored its protestations , and , stretching my hand out the window , opened the napkin . For a moment the drone seemed stunned ...
Page 14
... bodies . They , my daughter , were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the hand ax . Yes , they were a pair of splendid fellows . I said to them , If you had asked for bread ! Then they answered : We had gotten past that . We had ...
... bodies . They , my daughter , were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the hand ax . Yes , they were a pair of splendid fellows . I said to them , If you had asked for bread ! Then they answered : We had gotten past that . We had ...
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... bodies and souls . It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by example se s -John Ruskin of man - many of them . It is almost as if a ...
... bodies and souls . It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by example se s -John Ruskin of man - many of them . It is almost as if a ...
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... body pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson . What do I consider the nearest approximation to happiness of which the present human nature is capable ? Why , living on a farm which is one's own , far from the hectic , artificial ...
... body pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson . What do I consider the nearest approximation to happiness of which the present human nature is capable ? Why , living on a farm which is one's own , far from the hectic , artificial ...
Page 29
... overwhelmed , distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
... overwhelmed , distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a human body , SCRAP BOOK Page 29.
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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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