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 5
... sameness of the workaday world . Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
... sameness of the workaday world . Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
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... tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his tribe what he had done . As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words , and sat down . Then there arose ...
... tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his tribe what he had done . As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words , and sat down . Then there arose ...
Page 11
... tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse ...
... tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse ...
Page 16
... tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill ...
... tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill ...
Page 18
... tell you about my experience . There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us ...
... tell you about my experience . There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us ...
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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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