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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Page 11
... tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " " Several 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 ...
... tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " " Several 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 ...
Page 16
... tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill ...
... tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell , who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill ...
Page 18
... tell you about my experience . There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us ...
... tell you about my experience . There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us ...
Page 22
... Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm ; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me ...
... Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm ; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me ...
Page 48
... tell you that a thoroughbred never whines . One illustrated this to me by swinging a dog around by the tail . The creature was in pain , but no sound escaped him . 99 You see , ' said the keeper , they never complain . It ain't in ' em ...
... tell you that a thoroughbred never whines . One illustrated this to me by swinging a dog around by the tail . The creature was in pain , but no sound escaped him . 99 You see , ' said the keeper , they never complain . It ain't in ' em ...
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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