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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Only the dismal cawing of a crow , as he sits and curses that the harvest is over ; or the chit - chat of an idle squirrel , the noisy denizen of a hollow tree , the mendicant friar of a large parish , the absolute monarch of a dozen ...
Only the dismal cawing of a crow , as he sits and curses that the harvest is over ; or the chit - chat of an idle squirrel , the noisy denizen of a hollow tree , the mendicant friar of a large parish , the absolute monarch of a dozen ...
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Nothing but blackness above , And nothing that moves but the carsGod , if You wish for our love , Fling us a handful of stars ! " Caliban in the Coal Mines , ” by Louis Untermeyer Ꮽ Ꮽ HE tree which moves some to tears ...
Nothing but blackness above , And nothing that moves but the carsGod , if You wish for our love , Fling us a handful of stars ! " Caliban in the Coal Mines , ” by Louis Untermeyer Ꮽ Ꮽ HE tree which moves some to tears ...
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E have reached Cascade Creek at last ; and a beautiful grove of pine trees , beneath whose shade a clear stream , whose waters ... and then pass out from the tree shadows and take your stand upon that farther rock , clinging to it well ...
E have reached Cascade Creek at last ; and a beautiful grove of pine trees , beneath whose shade a clear stream , whose waters ... and then pass out from the tree shadows and take your stand upon that farther rock , clinging to it well ...
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... fruit - trees begin to show ; the blood is running up the grape - vines in streams ; you can smell the wild - flowers on the near bank ; and the birds are flying and glancing and singing everywhere . To the open kitchen - door comes ...
... fruit - trees begin to show ; the blood is running up the grape - vines in streams ; you can smell the wild - flowers on the near bank ; and the birds are flying and glancing and singing everywhere . To the open kitchen - door comes ...
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YOU cannot force the growthofhuman life and civilization , any more than you can force these slow - growing trees . Thatisthe economy of Almighty God , that all good growth is slow growth .
YOU cannot force the growthofhuman life and civilization , any more than you can force these slow - growing trees . Thatisthe economy of Almighty God , that all good growth is slow growth .
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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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