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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Let the reader browse but a moment and - to use Keats ' image - he will find the sails of his soul set for one of those high voyages of the spirit which give to life its most exalted meaning , and bring back as cargo the thrice - tried ...
Let the reader browse but a moment and - to use Keats ' image - he will find the sails of his soul set for one of those high voyages of the spirit which give to life its most exalted meaning , and bring back as cargo the thrice - tried ...
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And you must transact business , wirepull politics , discuss religion , give and receive hate , love , and friendship with all sorts of people before you can acquire the sense of humanity . If you are to acquire the sense sufficiently ...
And you must transact business , wirepull politics , discuss religion , give and receive hate , love , and friendship with all sorts of people before you can acquire the sense of humanity . If you are to acquire the sense sufficiently ...
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Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; ' T is hard to part when friends are dearPerhaps ' t will cost a sigh , a tear ; Then steal away , give little warning , Choose thine own time ; Say not Good ...
Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; ' T is hard to part when friends are dearPerhaps ' t will cost a sigh , a tear ; Then steal away , give little warning , Choose thine own time ; Say not Good ...
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Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
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We had asked and asked , and nobody would give us anything . Endurance was worn out . Nyahand so they remained with me the whole winter . One of them , Stephen by name , liked to take the rifle and go into the woods .
We had asked and asked , and nobody would give us anything . Endurance was worn out . Nyahand so they remained with me the whole winter . One of them , Stephen by name , liked to take the rifle and go into the woods .
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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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