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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30 80 Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth . -Margaret Fuller . O make my readers realize what a philosopher is , SCRAP BOOK Page 9.
30 80 Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth . -Margaret Fuller . O make my readers realize what a philosopher is , SCRAP BOOK Page 9.
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Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau .
Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau .
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He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor Hugo . If you have knowledge , let others light their candles at it . - Margaret Fuller .
He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor Hugo . If you have knowledge , let others light their candles at it . - Margaret Fuller .
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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 , the great ships , invented the locomotives ...
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 , the great ships , invented the locomotives ...
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It is almost as if a new sort of human nature had been produced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out ...
It is almost as if a new sort of human nature had been produced - rolled up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness , and heating up , and pouring over , and expansion of the earth . Great elemental forces silently working out ...
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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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