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 16
... hears his foot- fall , you can take it for granted that he is pure , for his home is a heaven - and the humbug never gets that near the great white throne of God . He may be a rank atheist and red - flag anarchist , a Mormon and a ...
... hears his foot- fall , you can take it for granted that he is pure , for his home is a heaven - and the humbug never gets that near the great white throne of God . He may be a rank atheist and red - flag anarchist , a Mormon and a ...
Page 28
... hear it strike . Nothing more awful have I ever seen than the yawning of that chasm ; and the stillness , solemn as mid- night , profound as death . The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear ...
... hear it strike . Nothing more awful have I ever seen than the yawning of that chasm ; and the stillness , solemn as mid- night , profound as death . The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear ...
Page 40
... hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their best- loved ones , Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the daisies red . ( Concluded on next page ) Think of the odd quarter ...
... hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their best- loved ones , Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the daisies red . ( Concluded on next page ) Think of the odd quarter ...
Page 41
... hear talk about " killing time . " The man who is always kill- ing time is really killing his own chances in life ; while the man who is destined to suc- cess is the man who makes time live by making it useful . - Arthur Brisbane ...
... hear talk about " killing time . " The man who is always kill- ing time is really killing his own chances in life ; while the man who is destined to suc- cess is the man who makes time live by making it useful . - Arthur Brisbane ...
Page 44
... hear his side . We have none but the evidence for the prosecution , and yet we have rendered the ver- dict . To my mind this is irregular . It is un - English , it is un - American . Of course , Satan has some kind of a case , it goes ...
... hear his side . We have none but the evidence for the prosecution , and yet we have rendered the ver- dict . To my mind this is irregular . It is un - English , it is un - American . Of course , Satan has some kind of a case , it goes ...
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