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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... who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex and doomed , for the most part , to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death , appears in every age as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man ...
... who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex and doomed , for the most part , to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death , appears in every age as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man ...
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The California Poppy , " by Joaquin Miller What is this mystery that men call 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 ...
The California Poppy , " by Joaquin Miller What is this mystery that men call 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 ...
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D0 D0 WO contrary laws stand today opposed : one a law of blood and 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 ...
D0 D0 WO contrary laws stand today opposed : one a law of blood and 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 ...
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What is this mystery that men call 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 .
What is this mystery that men call 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 .
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I was hanged at dawn for a crime— Flesh dies , but the soul knows no 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 ...
I was hanged at dawn for a crime— Flesh dies , but the soul knows no 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 ...
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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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