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 13
... hold , The gold that banks not in the town , But singing , laughing , freely Its hoard far up the happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn- What beggar has not gold to " The California Poppy , ” by Joaquin Miller What is this ...
... hold , The gold that banks not in the town , But singing , laughing , freely Its hoard far up the happy hills ; Far up , far down , at every turn- What beggar has not gold to " The California Poppy , ” by Joaquin Miller What is this ...
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... hold its own against a united people . We know that in a cricket or football team , a regiment , a ship's crew , a school . the " antagonism of the atoms would mean defeat and failure . We know that a society composed of antagonistic ...
... hold its own against a united people . We know that in a cricket or football team , a regiment , a ship's crew , a school . the " antagonism of the atoms would mean defeat and failure . We know that a society composed of antagonistic ...
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... holds thousands of " delicate Ariels imprisoned in every oak . She is jealous of letting us know this ; and among the higher and more conspicuous forms of plants reveals it only by such obscure manifestations as the shrinking of the ...
... holds thousands of " delicate Ariels imprisoned in every oak . She is jealous of letting us know this ; and among the higher and more conspicuous forms of plants reveals it only by such obscure manifestations as the shrinking of the ...
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... and efficient employer . Arthur W. Newcomb . Of all kinds of pride I hold national pride the most foolish ; it ruined Greece ; it ruined Judea and Rome . - Herder . solemn walls . By dash of wind and wave , SCRAP BOOK Page 27.
... and efficient employer . Arthur W. Newcomb . Of all kinds of pride I hold national pride the most foolish ; it ruined Greece ; it ruined Judea and Rome . - Herder . solemn walls . By dash of wind and wave , SCRAP BOOK Page 27.
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... hold upon the im- agination , in their lack of physical force . -Ernest Renan . IT is a truly sublime spec- tacle when in the stillness of the night , in an un- clouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it ...
... hold upon the im- agination , in their lack of physical force . -Ernest Renan . IT is a truly sublime spec- tacle when in the stillness of the night , in an un- clouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it ...
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