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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... for his own refreshment and delectation 90 ( D To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest , into what scented rose gardens of Poetry , and up what steep slopes of Thought .
... for his own refreshment and delectation 90 ( D To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest , into what scented rose gardens of Poetry , and up what steep slopes of Thought .
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... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble , which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place , and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits , how much more are letters to be magnified ...
... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble , which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place , and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits , how much more are letters to be magnified ...
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... the great ships , invented the locomotives and engines , supplying the countless wants of civilization ; the men who invented the telegraphs and cables , and freighted the electricspark with thought and love ; the men who invented ...
... the great ships , invented the locomotives and engines , supplying the countless wants of civilization ; the men who invented the telegraphs and cables , and freighted the electricspark with thought and love ; the men who invented ...
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I know he will awake And smile on me as he did yesterday ; And he will have some gentle word to say , Some kindly deed to do ; for loving thought Was warp and woof of which his life was wrought . He is not dead .
I know he will awake And smile on me as he did yesterday ; And he will have some gentle word to say , Some kindly deed to do ; for loving thought Was warp and woof of which his life was wrought . He is not dead .
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... with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some ... that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow .
... with the thoughts that he is thinking , with the deeds that he is doing , when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some ... that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow .
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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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