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 7
Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man , and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince . I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted ...
Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man , and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince . I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted ...
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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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... and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of themwere it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able to see what is actually in a picture ...
... and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of themwere it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able to see what is actually in a picture ...
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HERE has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mournful , and in some respects the most awful , upon which the eye of the moralist can dwell . That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits ...
HERE has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mournful , and in some respects the most awful , upon which the eye of the moralist can dwell . That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits ...
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I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep ; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife ; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to ...
I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep ; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife ; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to ...
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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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