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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If to him Egeria came , would it not , a poet somewhere asked , be uncivil to depict her as less than he ? It would be not only uncivil but untrue . Said Themistocles , " You see that boy of mine ? Though but five , he governs the ...
If to him Egeria came , would it not , a poet somewhere asked , be uncivil to depict her as less than he ? It would be not only uncivil but untrue . Said Themistocles , " You see that boy of mine ? Though but five , he governs the ...
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Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap when life is work of the spent ? world may be limited , but the fact that it is work makes it precious . Darwin could work " Leaf After Leaf Drops Off ...
Should we , her wiser sons , be less content Y share To sink into her lap when life is work of the spent ? world may be limited , but the fact that it is work makes it precious . Darwin could work " Leaf After Leaf Drops Off ...
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There , where the rock opens for the river , its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet , between the Upper and Lower Falls , to less than one hundred feet where it takes the plunge . The shelf of rock over which it ...
There , where the rock opens for the river , its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet , between the Upper and Lower Falls , to less than one hundred feet where it takes the plunge . The shelf of rock over which it ...
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Those things called dear are , when justly estimated , the cheapest : they are attended with much less profit to the Artist than those which everybody calls cheap Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance , nor can ...
Those things called dear are , when justly estimated , the cheapest : they are attended with much less profit to the Artist than those which everybody calls cheap Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance , nor can ...
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Looking to future generations , there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker , and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger . The struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe ...
Looking to future generations , there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker , and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger . The struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe ...
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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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