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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30 30 D IE when I may , I want it said of me by those who knew me best , that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow . Abraham Lincoln . 80 80 HAT we should do unto others as we would have ...
30 30 D IE when I may , I want it said of me by those who knew me best , that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow . Abraham Lincoln . 80 80 HAT we should do unto others as we would have ...
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Let Leaf after leaf drops off , 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 ...
Let Leaf after leaf drops off , 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 ...
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I pray for your desires that they may be great , rather than for your satisfactions , which may be so hazardously little . A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud ...
I pray for your desires that they may be great , rather than for your satisfactions , which may be so hazardously little . A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall . The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud ...
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Je d W HEN men are rightly occupied , their amusement grows out of their work , as the color petals out of a fruitful flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and ...
Je d W HEN men are rightly occupied , their amusement grows out of their work , as the color petals out of a fruitful flower ; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate , all their emotions are steady , deep , perpetual and ...
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... the blood is running up the grape - vines in streams ; you can smell the wild - 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 ...
... the blood is running up the grape - vines in streams ; you can smell the wild - 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 ...
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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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