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 9
... thou hast many infamies , But not an infamy like this . O , snap the fife and still the drum , And show the monster as she is . " The Illusions of War , " by Richard Le Gallienne Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and ...
... thou hast many infamies , But not an infamy like this . O , snap the fife and still the drum , And show the monster as she is . " The Illusions of War , " by Richard Le Gallienne Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and ...
Page 11
... thou to 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 ...
... thou to 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 ...
Page 15
... Thou washest my heart clean as the Priest's . Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well , that I also may be a devout craftsman Thou teachest me subtle ways to resist despair , to master my passions , to heal unworthy weakness ...
... Thou washest my heart clean as the Priest's . Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well , that I also may be a devout craftsman Thou teachest me subtle ways to resist despair , to master my passions , to heal unworthy weakness ...
Page 46
... thou , too , seek to join the universal love - feast , thou whose noble branches have been broken by the storm ? " know , to act , to listen , to behold , to love . To look up at the blue summer sky ; to see the sun sink slowly beyond ...
... thou , too , seek to join the universal love - feast , thou whose noble branches have been broken by the storm ? " know , to act , to listen , to behold , to love . To look up at the blue summer sky ; to see the sun sink slowly beyond ...
Page 49
... Thou art gazing down at us in such terrible silence . Dost Thou shudder at these sons of men ? Thou poor and slight God ! Thou couldst only rain Thy paltry pitch and sulphur on Sodom and Gomorrah . But we , Thy children , whom Thou hast ...
... Thou art gazing down at us in such terrible silence . Dost Thou shudder at these sons of men ? Thou poor and slight God ! Thou couldst only rain Thy paltry pitch and sulphur on Sodom and Gomorrah . But we , Thy children , whom Thou hast ...
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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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