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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If you look at several thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of themwere it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a ...
If you look at several thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of themwere it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a ...
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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 , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau .
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 , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau .
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The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of carnage to ...
The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of carnage to ...
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Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
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... heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes . ... a book ! a message to us from the deadfrom human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away .
... heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes . ... a book ! a message to us from the deadfrom human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away .
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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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