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 28
The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon ...
The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon ...
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Oh , let it hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their bestloved ones , And on its head Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the daisies red .
Oh , let it hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their bestloved ones , And on its head Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the daisies red .
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... you often hear talk about " killing time . " The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life ; while the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful .
... you often hear talk about " killing time . " The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life ; while the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful .
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All religions issue Bibles against him , but we never hear his side . We have none but the evidence for the prosecution , and yet we have rendered the verdict . To my mind this is irregular . It is un - English , it is un - American .
All religions issue Bibles against him , but we never hear his side . We have none but the evidence for the prosecution , and yet we have rendered the verdict . To my mind this is irregular . It is un - English , it is un - American .
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It will hear . Give it a right arm . It will act . Man needs time and room . Man needs soil , sunshine and rain . Needs a chance . Open all your doors and windows . Let everything pass freely in and out , out and in . Even the evil .
It will hear . Give it a right arm . It will act . Man needs time and room . Man needs soil , sunshine and rain . Needs a chance . Open all your doors and windows . Let everything pass freely in and out , out and in . Even the evil .
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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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