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 17
... flower where I thought a flower would grow . Abraham Lincoln . 80 80 HAT we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us - that we should respect the rights of others as scrupulously as we would have our rights respected - is ...
... flower where I thought a flower would grow . Abraham Lincoln . 80 80 HAT we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us - that we should respect the rights of others as scrupulously as we would have our rights respected - is ...
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... flower after flower , Some in the chill , some in the warmer hour : Alive they flourish , and alive they fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap ...
... flower after flower , Some in the chill , some in the warmer hour : Alive they flourish , and alive they fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap ...
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... flower is one whose petals are about to fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth . Not always shall you be what you are now de de You ...
... flower is one whose petals are about to fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth . Not always shall you be what you are now de de You ...
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... flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and vivifying to the soul as is the natural pulse to the body . - John Ruskin . --- Men ! whose boast it is that ye Come of ...
... flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and vivifying to the soul as is the natural pulse to the body . - John Ruskin . --- Men ! whose boast it is that ye Come of ...
Page 39
... flowers on the near bank ; and the birds are flying and glancing and singing everywhere . To the open kitchen - door comes the busy housewife to shake a white something , and stands a moment to look , quite transfixed by the delightful ...
... flowers on the near bank ; and the birds are flying and glancing and singing everywhere . To the open kitchen - door comes the busy housewife to shake a white something , and stands a moment to look , quite transfixed by the delightful ...
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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