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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I wait with joy the coming years : My heart shall reap where it has sown , And garner up the fruit of tears . The waters know their own , and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights . So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul ...
I wait with joy the coming years : My heart shall reap where it has sown , And garner up the fruit of tears . The waters know their own , and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights . So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul ...
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The tears fill my astonished eyes , And my full heart is like to break , And yet it is embannered lies , A dream those drummers make . Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen ...
The tears fill my astonished eyes , And my full heart is like to break , And yet it is embannered lies , A dream those drummers make . Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen ...
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The world's great heart has proved equal to the prodigious undertaking which God set it . Rebuffed , but always persevering ; self - reproached , but ever regaining faith ; undaunted , tenacious , the heart of man labors towards ...
The world's great heart has proved equal to the prodigious undertaking which God set it . Rebuffed , but always persevering ; self - reproached , but ever regaining faith ; undaunted , tenacious , the heart of man labors towards ...
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I am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by , here , as in every place where a human heart is beating ! Can not an actor be God's man ? Can not I , whose business it is to play , be as conscientious as those in authority ...
I am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by , here , as in every place where a human heart is beating ! Can not an actor be God's man ? Can not I , whose business it is to play , be as conscientious as those in authority ...
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I care not a copper what his reputationor religion may be : if his babies dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water ...
I care not a copper what his reputationor religion may be : if his babies dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five - dollar bill , he is a fraud of the first water ...
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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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