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
It darted out its sting ; its little nervous 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 ...
It darted out its sting ; its little nervous 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 ...
Page 14
We have n't a bite in our 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 !
We have n't a bite in our 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 !
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It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls . It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept ...
It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls . It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept ...
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... are saturated with the same thought , the same sympathy , that whole great body pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson . What do I consider the nearest approximation to happiness of which the present human nature is capable ?
... are saturated with the same thought , the same sympathy , that whole great body pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson . What do I consider the nearest approximation to happiness of which the present human nature is capable ?
Page 29
... 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.
... 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 |
| 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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