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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asks the Jungfrau " I 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 ...
asks the Jungfrau " I 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 ...
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My friend before me lies ; in all save breath He 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 ...
My friend before me lies ; in all save breath He 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 ...
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But it 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 ...
But it 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 ...
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To me it 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 ...
To me it 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 ...
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The water 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 water 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 ...
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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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