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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As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words , and sat down . Then there arose according to the story - a masterless man , one who had taken no part in the action of his fellow , who had no ...
As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words , and sat down . Then there arose according to the story - a masterless man , one who had taken no part in the action of his fellow , who had no ...
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That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection , and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex and ...
That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection , and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex and ...
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... the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak , the marble live ; the great ...
... the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak , the marble live ; the great ...
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And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify us , teach us , comfort us , open their hearts to us as brothers . - Charles Kingsley . 30 900 B AD will be the day for every man when he becomes ...
And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify us , teach us , comfort us , open their hearts to us as brothers . - Charles Kingsley . 30 900 B AD will be the day for every man when he becomes ...
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Some speak of ideals as being only girls ' dreams . On the opposite , high ideals are lifelike portraits seen in advance . Only • the greatest minds living in an age of tyranny could see in prophecy the portrait of a free people .
Some speak of ideals as being only girls ' dreams . On the opposite , high ideals are lifelike portraits seen in advance . Only • the greatest minds living in an age of tyranny could see in prophecy the portrait of a free people .
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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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