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
Ever , in all junctures , in 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 .
Ever , in all junctures , in 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 .
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Let Leaf after leaf drops off , flower after flower , Some in the chill , some in the warmer hour : Alive they flourish , and alive they fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less ...
Let Leaf after leaf drops off , flower after flower , Some in the chill , some in the warmer hour : Alive they flourish , and alive they fall , And Earth who nourished them receives them all . Should we , her wiser sons , be less ...
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Throughout nearly all the 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 .
Throughout nearly all the 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 .
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I have always preferred the sunshine and have tried to put other people there , if only for an 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 have always preferred the sunshine and have tried to put other people there , if only for an 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 .
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So many 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 ...
So many 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 ...
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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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