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
Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen That in a garden of glory walks , Till good men love the thing they loathe ; Art , thou hast many infamies , But not an infamy like ...
Oh , it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous , grinning thing that stalks Hidden in music like a queen That in a garden of glory walks , Till good men love the thing they loathe ; Art , thou hast many infamies , But not an infamy like ...
Page 11
And the Jungfrau says to its neighbor : " What news hast 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 ...
And the Jungfrau says to its neighbor : " What news hast 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 ...
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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 ...
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If thou art the first to risk yielding to the wooing of the new season , if thou art the first to turn thy lance - like buds into blossoms and leaves , their delicate raiment will be torn by the rough blows of the trees that have been ...
If thou art the first to risk yielding to the wooing of the new season , if thou art the first to turn thy lance - like buds into blossoms and leaves , their delicate raiment will be torn by the rough blows of the trees that have been ...
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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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| 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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