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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For him it was the quest that mattered , it was the quest he loved 90 90 The Reader will remember Keats ' dream of << a very pleasant life . " " I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a ...
For him it was the quest that mattered , it was the quest he loved 90 90 The Reader will remember Keats ' dream of << a very pleasant life . " " I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a ...
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The tears fill my astonished eyes , And my full heart is like to break , And yet it is embannered lies , A dream those drummers make . Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen ...
The tears fill my astonished eyes , And my full heart is like to break , And yet it is embannered lies , A dream those drummers make . Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen ...
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The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual incarnations .
The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual incarnations .
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Richard Mansfield . De de God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens , and to look upward to the stars . - Ovid . HE faculty to dream was not given to mock us Page 26 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
Richard Mansfield . De de God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens , and to look upward to the stars . - Ovid . HE faculty to dream was not given to mock us Page 26 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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HE faculty to dream was not given to mock us . There is a reality back of it . There is a divinity behind our legitimate desires . By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ...
HE faculty to dream was not given to mock us . There is a reality back of it . There is a divinity behind our legitimate desires . By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ...
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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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