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 5
... pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale ...
... pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale ...
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... pass through the vast sea of time , and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom , illuminations , and inventions the one of the other ? -Francis Bacon . tints are gone , as if the autumnal rains had washed them out . Orange ...
... pass through the vast sea of time , and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom , illuminations , and inventions the one of the other ? -Francis Bacon . tints are gone , as if the autumnal rains had washed them out . Orange ...
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... pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau . 66 Now I can see ...
... pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau . 66 Now I can see ...
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... pass . " I'm not going to talk about this strike , " she said when she could make herself heard . It's over . I want to tell you about the next one - and the next . I wish very much I could make you understand about the strikes that are ...
... pass . " I'm not going to talk about this strike , " she said when she could make herself heard . It's over . I want to tell you about the next one - and the next . I wish very much I could make you understand about the strikes that are ...
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... pass , and certainly nothing would be left but these little brown volumes- so many caskets full of tenderness and passion , disappointed ambition , fruitless hope , self - torturing envy , conceit , aware , in maddening , lucid moments ...
... pass , and certainly nothing would be left but these little brown volumes- so many caskets full of tenderness and passion , disappointed ambition , fruitless hope , self - torturing envy , conceit , aware , in maddening , lucid moments ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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 |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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