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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Without a soul — save this bright treat Of heady music , sweet as hell ; And even my peace - abiding feet Go marching with the marching street , For yonder goes the fife , And what care I for human Life ! The tears fill my astonished ...
Without a soul — save this bright treat Of heady music , sweet as hell ; And even my peace - abiding feet Go marching with the marching street , For yonder goes the fife , And what care I for human Life ! The tears fill my astonished ...
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... which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man from the scourges which assail him ...
... which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man from the scourges which assail him ...
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... perfection to individuals — but it is the law to which we must conform social institutions and national policy , if we would secure the blessings and abundance of peace . Henry George . I am part of the sea and stars And the SCRAP ...
... perfection to individuals — but it is the law to which we must conform social institutions and national policy , if we would secure the blessings and abundance of peace . Henry George . I am part of the sea and stars And the SCRAP ...
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O look fearlessly upon life ; to accept the laws of nature , not with meek resignation , but as her sons , who dare to search and question ; to have peace and confidence within our souls - these are the beliefs that make for happiness .
O look fearlessly upon life ; to accept the laws of nature , not with meek resignation , but as her sons , who dare to search and question ; to have peace and confidence within our souls - these are the beliefs that make for happiness .
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... light the same , and smoke in one another's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such predicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and contentious centuries , The crest and crowning of all good , Life's final.
... light the same , and smoke in one another's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such predicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and contentious centuries , The crest and crowning of all good , Life's final.
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