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 15
... hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me to play the man . Amen ! " The Actor's Prayer , " by Dr. Frank Crane . Thou washest my heart clean as the Priest's . Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well ...
... hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me to play the man . Amen ! " The Actor's Prayer , " by Dr. Frank Crane . Thou washest my heart clean as the Priest's . Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well ...
Page 27
... hour at a time ; yet in many diligent half - hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy . Green , the historian , tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes , but also by the aggregate of the tiny ...
... hour at a time ; yet in many diligent half - hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy . Green , the historian , tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes , but also by the aggregate of the tiny ...
Page 29
... hours of that afternoon until the sunset shadows came , and afterwards among the moonbeams , I waited there , clinging to that rock , jutting out into that overpowering , gorgeous chasm . I was appalled and fascinated , afraid and yet ...
... hours of that afternoon until the sunset shadows came , and afterwards among the moonbeams , I waited there , clinging to that rock , jutting out into that overpowering , gorgeous chasm . I was appalled and fascinated , afraid and yet ...
Page 30
... hour or two at a time . -Marshall P. Wilder . LOVE you for what you are , but I love you yet more for what you are going to be . I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals . I pray for your desires that they may be ...
... hour or two at a time . -Marshall P. Wilder . LOVE you for what you are , but I love you yet more for what you are going to be . I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals . I pray for your desires that they may be ...
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... hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be ! So many baby mouths drawing life at women's breasts ; -all this , that men might lie with glazed eyeballs , and swollen faces , and fixed , blue , unclosed mouths , and great limbs ...
... hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be ! So many baby mouths drawing life at women's breasts ; -all this , that men might lie with glazed eyeballs , and swollen faces , and fixed , blue , unclosed mouths , and great limbs ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth