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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... happy is such a voyage of conception , what delicious , diligent indolence ! " 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 ...
... happy is such a voyage of conception , what delicious , diligent indolence ! " 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 ...
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... happy , and why do you persecute me ? " After trying very hard , I brought it down and , in seizing it with the napkin , I involuntarily hurt it . Oh , how it tried to avenge itself ! It darted out its sting ; its little nervous body ...
... happy , and why do you persecute me ? " After trying very hard , I brought it down and , in seizing it with the napkin , I involuntarily hurt it . Oh , how it tried to avenge itself ! It darted out its sting ; its little nervous body ...
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... happy homes would be polluted , and not a few who , in the pride of their untempted chastity , think of her with an indignant shudder , would have known the agony of remorse and despair . On that one degraded and ignoble form are ...
... happy homes would be polluted , and not a few who , in the pride of their untempted chastity , think of her with an indignant shudder , would have known the agony of remorse and despair . On that one degraded and ignoble form are ...
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... happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn ! " The California Poppy , " by Joaquin Miller What is this mystery that men call death ? My. NEW era is dawning on the world . We are beginning to believe ...
... happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn ! " The California Poppy , " by Joaquin Miller What is this mystery that men call death ? My. NEW era is dawning on the world . We are beginning to believe ...
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... happy : We may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do— the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself , and do that which happens to be the easiest . If you are idle or sick or poor ...
... happy : We may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do— the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself , and do that which happens to be the easiest . If you are idle or sick or poor ...
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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