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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The wind is soft and low . It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves , that hang wilted on the dripping branches , or drop into the stream . Their gorgeous Ꮽ ᏭᏟ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . HE tradition of the stage is ...
The wind is soft and low . It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves , that hang wilted on the dripping branches , or drop into the stream . Their gorgeous Ꮽ ᏭᏟ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . HE tradition of the stage is ...
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Blame me not , brother ; I have nothing , brother . " The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me ; his blue lips smiled - and in his turn he pressed my cold fingers . " Never mind , brother , " he mumbled .
Blame me not , brother ; I have nothing , brother . " The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me ; his blue lips smiled - and in his turn he pressed my cold fingers . " Never mind , brother , " he mumbled .
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Without having looked at more than fifty pictures in his life , or made up his mind on the smallest point about one of the fifty , he will audaciously take it upon himself to explain the development of painting from Zeuxis and Apelles ...
Without having looked at more than fifty pictures in his life , or made up his mind on the smallest point about one of the fifty , he will audaciously take it upon himself to explain the development of painting from Zeuxis and Apelles ...
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Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
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... and his good qualities will count for but little ; while , of course , if he is mean , cruel or wicked , then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society .
... and his good qualities will count for but little ; while , of course , if he is mean , cruel or wicked , then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society .
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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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