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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Until there was found among them one , differing from the rest , whose pursuits attracted him not , and so he staid by the tents with the women , and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd . This man , who took no joy in ...
Until there was found among them one , differing from the rest , whose pursuits attracted him not , and so he staid by the tents with the women , and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd . This man , who took no joy in ...
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Go with each of us to rest ; if any awake , temper to them the dark hours of watching ; and when the day returns to us , our sun and comforter , call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts -eager to labor - eager to be happy ...
Go with each of us to rest ; if any awake , temper to them the dark hours of watching ; and when the day returns to us , our sun and comforter , call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts -eager to labor - eager to be happy ...
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It is portentous , and a thing of state That here at midnight , in our little town A mourning figure walks , and will not rest , Near the old court - house pacing up and down . Or by his homestead , or in shadowed yards He lingers where ...
It is portentous , and a thing of state That here at midnight , in our little town A mourning figure walks , and will not rest , Near the old court - house pacing up and down . Or by his homestead , or in shadowed yards He lingers where ...
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He can not rest until a spirit - dawn Shall come ; the shining hope of Europe free ; The league of sober folk , the Workers ' Earth , Bring long peace to Cornland , Alp and Sea . to avert and heal the wounds which come from Nature's ...
He can not rest until a spirit - dawn Shall come ; the shining hope of Europe free ; The league of sober folk , the Workers ' Earth , Bring long peace to Cornland , Alp and Sea . to avert and heal the wounds which come from Nature's ...
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They move their eyes , their lips , their hands ; They are marvellously dressed ; And here my body stirs or stands , A plaything like the rest . The toys are played with till they fall , Worn out and thrown away .
They move their eyes , their lips , their hands ; They are marvellously dressed ; And here my body stirs or stands , A plaything like the rest . The toys are played with till they fall , Worn out and thrown away .
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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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