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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... hand down untrue tales about them to their children , they took and killed him . But later they saw that the magic was in the words , not in the man . -Kipling 66 ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK PROVIDENCE - AN APOLOGUE HE other HERE is an ...
... hand down untrue tales about them to their children , they took and killed him . But later they saw that the magic was in the words , not in the man . -Kipling 66 ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK PROVIDENCE - AN APOLOGUE HE other HERE is an ...
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... hand out the window , opened the napkin . For a moment the drone seemed stunned , astonished ; then it calmly took flight out into the infinite . Well , you see how I saved the drone . I was its Providence . But ( and here is the moral ...
... hand out the window , opened the napkin . For a moment the drone seemed stunned , astonished ; then it calmly took flight out into the infinite . Well , you see how I saved the drone . I was its Providence . But ( and here is the moral ...
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... hands and wait , Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea : I rave no more ' gainst time or fate , For , lo ! my own shall come to me . I stay my haste , I make delays : For what avails this eager pace ? I stand amid the eternal ways , And ...
... hands and wait , Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea : I rave no more ' gainst time or fate , For , lo ! my own shall come to me . I stay my haste , I make delays : For what avails this eager pace ? I stand amid the eternal ways , And ...
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... hand , which swayed and trembled feebly . Bewildered , con- fused , I shook that dirty , tremulous hand heartily .... " Blame me not , brother ; I have nothing , brother . " The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me ; his blue lips ...
... hand , which swayed and trembled feebly . Bewildered , con- fused , I shook that dirty , tremulous hand heartily .... " Blame me not , brother ; I have nothing , brother . " The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me ; his blue lips ...
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... hand , " replies the Finsteraarhorn ; " well , and yonder , far away , in the valleys there is still a spot , and something is moving . " " And now ? " inquires the Jungfrau , after other thousands of years , which are as one minute ...
... hand , " replies the Finsteraarhorn ; " well , and yonder , far away , in the valleys there is still a spot , and something is moving . " " And now ? " inquires the Jungfrau , after other thousands of years , which are as one minute ...
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