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
... dead bees lying on the floor of the lookout where I am accustomed to work - a sight that I encounter every spring . The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found them- selves prisoners ...
... dead bees lying on the floor of the lookout where I am accustomed to work - a sight that I encounter every spring . The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found them- selves prisoners ...
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... than a soiled twig , a dirty seed , a dead leaf , black mould , or a rotting feather . -H . G. Wells . Ꮽ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . War I do abhor ; And yet how sweet tuppence Page 8 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
... than a soiled twig , a dirty seed , a dead leaf , black mould , or a rotting feather . -H . G. Wells . Ꮽ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . War I do abhor ; And yet how sweet tuppence Page 8 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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... 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 , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor ...
... 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 , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor ...
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... 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 ; for loving Was warp and woof of which ...
... 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 ; for loving Was warp and woof of which ...
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... dead- from human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify us , teach us , comfort us , open their hearts to us as brothers ...
... dead- from human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify us , teach us , comfort us , open their hearts to us as brothers ...
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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