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 14
I was once for example , employed as a watchman , at a country place which belonged to an engineer , not far from the city of Tomsk , in Siberia . The house stood in the middle of the forest , an out - of - the - way location ; and it ...
I was once for example , employed as a watchman , at a country place which belonged to an engineer , not far from the city of Tomsk , in Siberia . The house stood in the middle of the forest , an out - of - the - way location ; and it ...
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Many of them are rich by some mighty , silent , sudden service they have done to a whole planet at once . They have not had time to lose their souls . There is a sense in which they might be called The Innocents of Riches some of them .
Many of them are rich by some mighty , silent , sudden service they have done to a whole planet at once . They have not had time to lose their souls . There is a sense in which they might be called The Innocents of Riches some of them .
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Stitch - stitch - stitch In poverty , hunger , and dirt ,Sewing at once , with a double thread , A shroud as well as a Shirt ! " But why do I talk of DeathThat phantom of grisly bone ! I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like ...
Stitch - stitch - stitch In poverty , hunger , and dirt ,Sewing at once , with a double thread , A shroud as well as a Shirt ! " But why do I talk of DeathThat phantom of grisly bone ! I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like ...
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... killed will be covered with earth and lime , and once more the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project , weary of it , or till those who thought to find it profitable receive their spoil .
... killed will be covered with earth and lime , and once more the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project , weary of it , or till those who thought to find it profitable receive their spoil .
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Every minute that you save by making it useful , more profitable , is so much added to your life and its possibilities . Every minute lost is a neglected byproduct - once gone , you will never get it back . 66 Think of the odd quarter ...
Every minute that you save by making it useful , more profitable , is so much added to your life and its possibilities . Every minute lost is a neglected byproduct - once gone , you will never get it back . 66 Think of the odd quarter ...
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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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