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 8
... delights . The stars come nightly to the sky , The tidal wave unto the sea ; Nor time nor space , nor deep nor high , Can keep my own away from me . “ Waiting , ” by John Burroughs IT is the Indian summer . The rising sun blazes through ...
... delights . The stars come nightly to the sky , The tidal wave unto the sea ; Nor time nor space , nor deep nor high , Can keep my own away from me . “ Waiting , ” by John Burroughs IT is the Indian summer . The rising sun blazes through ...
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... delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intox- icates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind . There is nothing greater on this earth . ' T is the breath of the Eternal - the ...
... delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intox- icates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind . There is nothing greater on this earth . ' T is the breath of the Eternal - the ...
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... delight of striving toward perfection . God of common good and human broth- erhood , I give Thee thanks for siren songs of temptation that lure and entangle and the understanding of other men they reveal ; for the weaknesses and ...
... delight of striving toward perfection . God of common good and human broth- erhood , I give Thee thanks for siren songs of temptation that lure and entangle and the understanding of other men they reveal ; for the weaknesses and ...
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... delightful thing , accepts it , acqui- Oman has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen - to dig by the divining - rod for springs which he may never reach . In ...
... delightful thing , accepts it , acqui- Oman has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen - to dig by the divining - rod for springs which he may never reach . In ...
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... delightful place to camp . Now , dismounting and seeing that your horse is well cared for , while the men are unloading the packmules and pitching the tents , walk up that trail winding up the hill- side , follow it for a little among ...
... delightful place to camp . Now , dismounting and seeing that your horse is well cared for , while the men are unloading the packmules and pitching the tents , walk up that trail winding up the hill- side , follow it for a little among ...
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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