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 7
The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found themselves prisoners . Unable to see the transparent obstacle , they had hurled themselves against the glass panes on all sides , east , north ...
The poor things had come in through the open window . When the windows were closed they found themselves prisoners . Unable to see the transparent obstacle , they had hurled themselves against the glass panes on all sides , east , north ...
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What a waste is there of exquisite things ! So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest ...
What a waste is there of exquisite things ! So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings , a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf , warm perfection in every stirring egg , hope and fear and beauty beyond computation in every forest ...
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If you are to acquire the sense sufficiently to be a philosopher , you must do all these things unconditionally . You must not say that you will be a gentleman and limit your intercourse to this class or that class ; or that you will be ...
If you are to acquire the sense sufficiently to be a philosopher , you must do all these things unconditionally . You must not say that you will be a gentleman and limit your intercourse to this class or that class ; or that you will be ...
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Things have become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown ...
Things have become clearer down below ; the waters have contracted ; the forests have grown thinner . " More thousands of years pass , as it were one minute . " What dost thou see ? " says the Jungfrau 66 Things seem to have grown ...
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These things offer nothing that is worthy of a high ambition . Enjoyed to their fullest , they leave you hard , wrinkled and miserable . Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory ...
These things offer nothing that is worthy of a high ambition . Enjoyed to their fullest , they leave you hard , wrinkled and miserable . Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory ...
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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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