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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... virtues , but afflictedthat is the phrase - with the magic of the necessary words . He saw , he told , he described the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion , we are assured , that the words became alive and walked up and down ...
... virtues , but afflictedthat is the phrase - with the magic of the necessary words . He saw , he told , he described the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion , we are assured , that the words became alive and walked up and down ...
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... virtue . But for her , the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted , and not a few who , in the pride of their untempted chastity , think of her with an indignant shudder , would have known the agony of remorse ...
... virtue . But for her , the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted , and not a few who , in the pride of their untempted chastity , think of her with an indignant shudder , would have known the agony of remorse ...
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... virtue , the inner rewards of loyalty , helpfulness , and self - control . Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know ...
... virtue , the inner rewards of loyalty , helpfulness , and self - control . Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know ...
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... virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is ...
... virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is ...
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... virtues gained by climbing over jagged rocks of hardship and stumbling through dark and pathless sloughs of discouragement ; for the acid blight of failure that has burned out of me all thought of easy victory and toughened my sinews ...
... virtues gained by climbing over jagged rocks of hardship and stumbling through dark and pathless sloughs of discouragement ; for the acid blight of failure that has burned out of me all thought of easy victory and toughened my sinews ...
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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 grow 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 matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion remember 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 Vitellius Walt Whitman whole wind woman words youth
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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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