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 13
... pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak , the marble live ; the great ...
... pain ; the great philosophers and naturalists who have filled the world with light ; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul , the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak , the marble live ; the great ...
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... painful , con- tinual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warn- ing , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by ex- ample B -John Ruskin AD will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely con ...
... painful , con- tinual and difficult work to be done by kindness , by watching , by warn- ing , by precept , and by praise , but above all - by ex- ample B -John Ruskin AD will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely con ...
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... pain that drive me back from perilous ways into har- mony with the laws of my being ; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings and glorious achievement ; for steepness and rough- ness of the way and staunch ...
... pain that drive me back from perilous ways into har- mony with the laws of my being ; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings and glorious achievement ; for steepness and rough- ness of the way and staunch ...
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... pain while bones and muscles were shaped within ! So many hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be ! So many baby mouths drawing life at women's breasts ; -all this , that men might lie with glazed eyeballs , and swollen faces ...
... pain while bones and muscles were shaped within ! So many hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be ! So many baby mouths drawing life at women's breasts ; -all this , that men might lie with glazed eyeballs , and swollen faces ...
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... pain , Are ye not base slaves indeed , Slaves unworthy to be freed ! E have talked much of the brotherhood to come ; but brotherhood has always been the fact of our life , long before it became a modern and insipid sentiment . Only we ...
... pain , Are ye not base slaves indeed , Slaves unworthy to be freed ! E have talked much of the brotherhood to come ; but brotherhood has always been the fact of our life , long before it became a modern and insipid sentiment . Only we ...
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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