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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Finally it flew the whole length of the apartment , maddened and desperate . " Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ?
Finally it flew the whole length of the apartment , maddened and desperate . " Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ?
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War I do abhor ; And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum or fife , and I forget Broken old mothers , and the whole Dark butchering without a soul . Without a soul — save this bright treat Of heady music , sweet as ...
War I do abhor ; And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum or fife , and I forget Broken old mothers , and the whole Dark butchering without a soul . Without a soul — save this bright treat Of heady music , sweet as ...
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... within the sphere of philosophy is It is the price of progress ; and , after all , it is the philosopher , and not you , who will burn for it . -George Bernard Shaw . HE summits of the Alps . . . A whole Page 10 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
... within the sphere of philosophy is It is the price of progress ; and , after all , it is the philosopher , and not you , who will burn for it . -George Bernard Shaw . HE summits of the Alps . . . A whole Page 10 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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A whole chain of steep cliffs The heart of the very mountains . Overhead a bright , mute , pale - green sky . A hard , cruel frost ; firm , sparkling snow ; from beneath the snow project grim blocks of ice - bound , windworn cliffs .
A whole chain of steep cliffs The heart of the very mountains . Overhead a bright , mute , pale - green sky . A hard , cruel frost ; firm , sparkling snow ; from beneath the snow project grim blocks of ice - bound , windworn cliffs .
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The very fact that we are still here carrying on the contest against the hosts of annihilation proves that on the whole the battle has gone for humanity . The world's great heart has proved equal to the prodigious undertaking which God ...
The very fact that we are still here carrying on the contest against the hosts of annihilation proves that on the whole the battle has gone for humanity . The world's great heart has proved equal to the prodigious undertaking which God ...
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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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