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 men who have lengthened life and conquered pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have ...
... the men who have lengthened life and conquered pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have ...
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It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by example se s -John Ruskin of man - many of them . It is almost as if a new sort of human ...
It is a painful , continual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warning , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by example se s -John Ruskin of man - many of them . It is almost as if a new sort of human ...
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MAN'S Thanksgiving : God of commonsense , I give Thee thanks for the heavy blows of pain that drive me back from perilous ways into harmony with the laws of my being ; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings ...
MAN'S Thanksgiving : God of commonsense , I give Thee thanks for the heavy blows of pain that drive me back from perilous ways into harmony with the laws of my being ; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings ...
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... weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped within ! 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 ...
... weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped within ! 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 ...
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If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain , Are not base slaves indeed , ye Slaves unworthy to be freed ! Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake , And , with leathern hearts , forget That we owe ...
If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain , Are not base slaves indeed , ye Slaves unworthy to be freed ! Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake , And , with leathern hearts , forget That we owe ...
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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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