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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I stand amid the eternal ways , And what is mine shall know my face . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray , Nor change the tide of destiny .
I stand amid the eternal ways , And what is mine shall know my face . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray , Nor change the tide of destiny .
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I must face unflinchingly a world of facts a world of misery and degradation , of blindness , crookedness , and sin , a world struggling against the elements , against the unknown , against itself . How reconcile this world of fact with ...
I must face unflinchingly a world of facts a world of misery and degradation , of blindness , crookedness , and sin , a world struggling against the elements , against the unknown , against itself . How reconcile this world of fact with ...
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It points the martyr's path to the future ; it guides the reaper's hand in the present , and it turns the face of ambition toward the delectable hills of achievement . One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the ...
It points the martyr's path to the future ; it guides the reaper's hand in the present , and it turns the face of ambition toward the delectable hills of achievement . One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the ...
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His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . ... touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls .
His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . ... touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all invole beauty into faces made of a silent , indehigh souls .
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... homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water , even though he prays night and morning until he is black in the face and howls hallelujah ...
... homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water , even though he prays night and morning until he is black in the face and howls hallelujah ...
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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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