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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... pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale ...
... pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon it , and reflect from it , and dream upon it : until it becomes stale ...
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... pass through the vast sea of time , and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom , illuminations , and inventions the one of the other ? -Francis Bacon . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No ...
... pass through the vast sea of time , and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom , illuminations , and inventions the one of the other ? -Francis Bacon . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No ...
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... passing along the street when a beggar , a decrepit old man , stopped me . ¶ Swollen , tearful eyes , blue lips , bristling rags , unclean sores . Oh , how horribly had poverty gnawed that un- happy being ! He stretched out to me a red ...
... passing along the street when a beggar , a decrepit old man , stopped me . ¶ Swollen , tearful eyes , blue lips , bristling rags , unclean sores . Oh , how horribly had poverty gnawed that un- happy being ! He stretched out to me a red ...
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... 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 can see ; down ...
... 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 can see ; down ...
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... passing of a cloud , When a fit of laughter gits ye And ye❜r spine is feelin ' proud , Don't forget to up and fling it At a soul that's feelin ' blue , For the minit that ye sling it It's a boomerang to you . " The Boomerang , " by ...
... passing of a cloud , When a fit of laughter gits ye And ye❜r spine is feelin ' proud , Don't forget to up and fling it At a soul that's feelin ' blue , For the minit that ye sling it It's a boomerang to you . " The Boomerang , " by ...
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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