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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Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
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So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest tree ; and in the autumn before the snows ...
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He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor Hugo . If you have knowledge , let others light their candles at it . - Margaret Fuller .
He will possess something higher than all these a great country , the whole earth , and a great hope , the whole heaven . - Victor Hugo . If you have knowledge , let others light their candles at it . - Margaret Fuller .
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Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience of the angels than I hope to have when I play my part upon the mimic stage . Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of ...
Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience of the angels than I hope to have when I play my part upon the mimic stage . Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of ...
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... you have worked alonewhen you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man , and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken willthen only will you have achieved .
... you have worked alonewhen you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man , and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken willthen only will you have achieved .
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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 |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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