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 12
... fall , the eternal priestess of humanity , blasted for the sins of the people . - William E. H. Lecky . 80 90 Man is the merriest species of the creation ; all above or below him are serious . -Addison . war will I be dead , the ...
... fall , the eternal priestess of humanity , blasted for the sins of the people . - William E. H. Lecky . 80 90 Man is the merriest species of the creation ; all above or below him are serious . -Addison . war will I be dead , the ...
Page 20
... falls H , if they would only let you work . able to work ? Do you know the real thing that puts people in their little hospital cots with nervous prostration is not working , but trying to work and not being allowed to . Work never hurt ...
... falls H , if they would only let you work . able to work ? Do you know the real thing that puts people in their little hospital cots with nervous prostration is not working , but trying to work and not being allowed to . Work never hurt ...
Page 27
... fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap when life is work of the spent ? world may be limited , but the fact that it is work makes it precious ...
... fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap when life is work of the spent ? world may be limited , but the fact that it is work makes it precious ...
Page 28
... Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone lutely level . The water seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it ... fall itself , great and beautiful as it is , to its marvelous setting ; to the surprising , overmastering canyon ...
... Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone lutely level . The water seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it ... fall itself , great and beautiful as it is , to its marvelous setting ; to the surprising , overmastering canyon ...
Page 29
... falls back ; he who stops is overwhelmed , distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a ...
... falls back ; he who stops is overwhelmed , distanced , crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off , gives up ; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end . - Amiel . who is a woman says of a ...
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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 grow 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 matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember 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 Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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 |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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