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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Let the reader browse but a moment and - to use Keats ' image - he will find the sails of his soul set for one of those high voyages of the spirit which give to life its most exalted meaning , and bring back as cargo the thrice - tried ...
Let the reader browse but a moment and - to use Keats ' image - he will find the sails of his soul set for one of those high voyages of the spirit which give to life its most exalted meaning , and bring back as cargo the thrice - tried ...
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So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delights . The stars come nightly to the sky , The tidal wave unto the sea ; Nor time nor space , nor deep nor high , Can keep my own away from me . " Waiting , " by John Burroughs ...
So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delights . The stars come nightly to the sky , The tidal wave unto the sea ; Nor time nor space , nor deep nor high , Can keep my own away from me . " Waiting , " by John Burroughs ...
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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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Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner . It points the martyr's path to the future ...
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Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give . 66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I ... Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me to play the man . Amen !
Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give . 66 ' Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell May I ... Ever , in all junctures , in hours of lightness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me to play the man . Amen !
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