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 11
... seem to see fewer of the little beetles , " thunders the Finsteraarhorn . " Things have become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute ...
... seem to see fewer of the little beetles , " thunders the Finsteraarhorn . " Things have become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute ...
Page 15
... seems the same as yesterday . His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But sleeps ; and soon he will arise and take Me by the hand ...
... seems the same as yesterday . His face So like to life , so calm , bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread . I gaze on him and say : He is not dead , But sleeps ; and soon he will arise and take Me by the hand ...
Page 18
... seems to me sort of as if - during this strike - I'd seen a Blazing Bush . Anyhow I've seen my people in bondage . And I don't want to go to college and be a lady . I guess the kind princess could n't understand why Moses wanted to be a ...
... seems to me sort of as if - during this strike - I'd seen a Blazing Bush . Anyhow I've seen my people in bondage . And I don't want to go to college and be a lady . I guess the kind princess could n't understand why Moses wanted to be a ...
Page 26
... seems as if when God conceived the world , that was poetry ; He formed it , and that was sculpture ; He varied and colored it , and that was painting ; and then , crowning all , He peopled it with living beings , and that was the grand ...
... seems as if when God conceived the world , that was poetry ; He formed it , and that was sculpture ; He varied and colored it , and that was painting ; and then , crowning all , He peopled it with living beings , and that was the grand ...
Page 28
... seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it passes with a single bound , three hundred and fifty feet below . It is a sheer , unbroken , compact , shining mass of silver foam . But your eyes are all the while distracted from the fall ...
... seems to wait a moment on its verge , then it passes with a single bound , three hundred and fifty feet below . It is a sheer , unbroken , compact , shining mass of silver foam . But your eyes are all the while distracted from the fall ...
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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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