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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Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats ' dream . Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find " full Poesy " and " distilled Prose , " of a pleasing savor to the tongue and a ...
Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats ' dream . Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find " full Poesy " and " distilled Prose , " of a pleasing savor to the tongue and a ...
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Thereupon , the tribe seeing that the words were certainly alive , and fearing lest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children , they took and killed him . But later they saw that the magic was in ...
Thereupon , the tribe seeing that the words were certainly alive , and fearing lest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children , they took and killed him . But later they saw that the magic was in ...
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But I ignored its protestations , and , stretching my 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 ...
But I ignored its protestations , and , stretching my 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 ...
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Serene , I fold my 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 ?
Serene , I fold my 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 ?
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He stretched out to me a red , bloated , dirty hand .. He moaned , he bellowed for help . I began to rummage in all my pockets . . Neither purse , nor watch , nor even handkerchief did I find ... I had taken nothing with me .
He stretched out to me a red , bloated , dirty hand .. He moaned , he bellowed for help . I began to rummage in all my pockets . . Neither purse , nor watch , nor even handkerchief did I find ... I had taken nothing with me .
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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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