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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ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK PROVIDENCE - AN APOLOGUE HE other evening I was a little late in going down to dinner , and this was the reason : I noticed a number of dead bees lying on the floor of the lookout where I am accustomed to ...
ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK PROVIDENCE - AN APOLOGUE HE other evening I was a little late in going down to dinner , and this was the reason : I noticed a number of dead bees lying on the floor of the lookout where I am accustomed to ...
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... there is scarcely more to be found than a soiled twig , a dirty seed , a dead leaf , black mould , or a rotting feather . -H . G. Wells . 80 30 IT is the Indian summer . The rising sun blazes through the like a conflagration .
... there is scarcely more to be found than a soiled twig , a dirty seed , a dead leaf , black mould , or a rotting feather . -H . G. Wells . 80 30 IT is the Indian summer . The rising sun blazes through the like a conflagration .
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-Addison . war will I be dead , the scaffold will be dead , hatred will be dead , frontier boundaries will be dead , dogmas will be dead ; man will live . He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth ...
-Addison . war will I be dead , the scaffold will be dead , hatred will be dead , frontier boundaries will be dead , dogmas will be dead ; man will live . He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth ...
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I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But sleeps ; and soon he will arise and take Me by the hand . I know he will awake And smile on me as he did yesterday ; And he will have some gentle word to say , Some kindly deed to do ...
I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But sleeps ; and soon he will arise and take Me by the hand . I know he will awake And smile on me as he did yesterday ; And he will have some gentle word to say , Some kindly deed to do ...
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The first rude harps are broken and lost ; dead the hands that smote them ; but the art is here with no enchantment lost . We do not know the names of those singers . Like us they were pilgrims . had to into the but they left an art ...
The first rude harps are broken and lost ; dead the hands that smote them ; but the art is here with no enchantment lost . We do not know the names of those singers . Like us they were pilgrims . had to into the but they left an art ...
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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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