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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How 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 ...
How 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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Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ? I am happy , and why do you persecute me ? " After trying very hard , I brought it down and , in seizing it ...
Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ? I am happy , and why do you persecute me ? " After trying very hard , I brought it down and , in seizing it ...
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But for her , the unchallenged purity of countless 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 ...
But for her , the unchallenged purity of countless 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 ...
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... The gold that knows no miser's hold , The gold that banks not in the town , But singing , laughing , freely spills Its hoard far up the happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn !
... The gold that knows no miser's hold , The gold that banks not in the town , But singing , laughing , freely spills Its hoard far up the happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn !
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HERE are two ways of being 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 .
HERE are two ways of being 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 .
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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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