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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So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
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... by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization , torn from their homes and besotted by discipline , to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the possible interference of the famishing !
... by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization , torn from their homes and besotted by discipline , to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the possible interference of the famishing !
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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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I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like my own— It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear , And flesh and blood so cheap ! ” " The Song of the Shirt , " by Thomas Hood The ...
I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like my own— It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear , And flesh and blood so cheap ! ” " The Song of the Shirt , " by Thomas Hood The ...
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... no talent , no self - denial , no brains , no character are required to set up in the grumbling business . -Robert West . de de R EAR not that thy life shall come to an end , but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning .
... no talent , no self - denial , no brains , no character are required to set up in the grumbling business . -Robert West . de de R EAR not that thy life shall come to an end , but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning .
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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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