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 11
... grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown clearer round us , close at hand , " replies the Finsteraarhorn ; " well , and yonder , far ...
... grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown clearer round us , close at hand , " replies the Finsteraarhorn ; " well , and yonder , far ...
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... grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of human delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intoxicates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying ...
... grows - is the only possible god.-R. G. Ingersoll . ORATORY offers the acme of human delight ; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips ; it offers the draft that intoxicates the gods , the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying ...
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... 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 not a mere counsel of perfection to ...
... 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 not a mere counsel of perfection to ...
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... growing form . All high ideals will be realized . This one perceives who takes a long view - the triumph of ideality over apathy , indolence and dust . There is nothing in history , dark as much of it is , to check the belief that man ...
... growing form . All high ideals will be realized . This one perceives who takes a long view - the triumph of ideality over apathy , indolence and dust . There is nothing in history , dark as much of it is , to check the belief that man ...
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... grow dizzy , and there opens before you one of the most stupendous scenes of Nature , the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone lutely level . The water seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it passes with a single ...
... grow dizzy , and there opens before you one of the most stupendous scenes of Nature , the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone lutely level . The water seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it passes with a single ...
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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