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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I am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by , here , as in every place where a human heart is beating ! Can not an actor be God's man ? Can not I , whose business it is to play , be as conscientious as those in authority ...
I am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by , here , as in every place where a human heart is beating ! Can not an actor be God's man ? Can not I , whose business it is to play , be as conscientious as those in authority ...
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She stopped a moment , and a strange look came over her face - a look of communication with some distant spirit . When she spoke again , her words were unintelligible to most of the audience . Some of the Jewish vest - makers understood ...
She stopped a moment , and a strange look came over her face - a look of communication with some distant spirit . When she spoke again , her words were unintelligible to most of the audience . Some of the Jewish vest - makers understood ...
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And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills . ' CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I ...
And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills . ' CAN no more understand that any serious injury can come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief in Jack the Giant - Killer s I ...
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I have dedicated every power there is in me to bring the colleges that I have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit , and I shall not be satisfied until America shall know that the men in the colleges ...
I have dedicated every power there is in me to bring the colleges that I have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit , and I shall not be satisfied until America shall know that the men in the colleges ...
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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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