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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The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found themselves prisoners . Unable to see the transparent obstacle , they had hurled themselves against the glass panes on all sides , east , north ...
The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found themselves prisoners . Unable to see the transparent obstacle , they had hurled themselves against the glass panes on all sides , east , north ...
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Serene , I fold my hands and wait , Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea : I rave no more ' gainst time or fate , For , lo ! my own shall come to me . I stay my haste , I make delays : For what avails this eager pace ?
Serene , I fold my hands and wait , Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea : I rave no more ' gainst time or fate , For , lo ! my own shall come to me . I stay my haste , I make delays : For what avails this eager pace ?
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... though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles , I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Robert Southey . Come , follow me , and leave the world to its babblings . - Dante .
... though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles , I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Robert Southey . Come , follow me , and leave the world to its babblings . - Dante .
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I think it's the seventh verse : ' And the Lord said , I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt , and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows ; " And I am come down to ...
I think it's the seventh verse : ' And the Lord said , I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt , and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows ; " And I am come down to ...
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CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore .
CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore .
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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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