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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... thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them- were it only that it is not worth troub- ling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able ...
... thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them- were it only that it is not worth troub- ling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able ...
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... 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 . " Now I ...
... 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 . " Now I ...
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... 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 heal the wounds caused by the law 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 heal the wounds caused by the law of ...
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... thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civili- zation , torn from their homes and besotted by discipline , to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the ...
... thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civili- zation , torn from their homes and besotted by discipline , to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the ...
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... thousand tribes . - O . W. Holmes . 30 30 XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! a message to us from the dead- from human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in ...
... thousand tribes . - O . W. Holmes . 30 30 XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! a message to us from the dead- from human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in ...
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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 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 mankind Mary Baker Eddy matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion 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 whole wind woman words youth Ꮽ Ꮽ