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 12
... death , appears in every age as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man Herself the supreme type of vice , she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue . But for her , the unchallenged purity of ...
... death , appears in every age as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man Herself the supreme type of vice , she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue . But for her , the unchallenged purity of ...
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... death ? My. NEW era is dawning on the world . We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness 9 20 The men who felled the forests , cultivated the earth , spanned the rivers with bridges of steel , built the railways and canals ...
... death ? My. NEW era is dawning on the world . We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness 9 20 The men who felled the forests , cultivated the earth , spanned the rivers with bridges of steel , built the railways and canals ...
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... death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man from the scourges which assail him . One looks ...
... death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man from the scourges which assail him . One looks ...
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... death ? My friend before me lies ; in all save breath He seems the same as yesterday . His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But ...
... death ? My friend before me lies ; in all save breath He seems the same as yesterday . His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But ...
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... death ; I piped to great Shakespeare's chime The witches ' song in Macbeth . All , all who have suffered and won , Am I , with work still undone , Who have struggled and failed and died , And a spear - mark in my side . I am part of the ...
... death ; I piped to great Shakespeare's chime The witches ' song in Macbeth . All , all who have suffered and won , Am I , with work still undone , Who have struggled and failed and died , And a spear - mark in my side . I am part of the ...
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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 grow 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 matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember 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 Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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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