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 28
... death . The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness ...
... death . The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness ...
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... death ; and the other from the hilltops of justice and progress , where even failure brings glory . Two lights are seen in your horizon -one the fast fading marsh light of power , and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood ...
... death ; and the other from the hilltops of justice and progress , where even failure brings glory . Two lights are seen in your horizon -one the fast fading marsh light of power , and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood ...
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... death , in all civilized so- cieties , the prob- ability that the average woman will die in child- birth is immeasur- ably greater than the probability that the average male will die in battle . There is , perhaps , no woman , whether ...
... death , in all civilized so- cieties , the prob- ability that the average woman will die in child- birth is immeasur- ably greater than the probability that the average male will die in battle . There is , perhaps , no woman , whether ...
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... death . You do not think so , but it is true , and it ought to be true . For if there were some way by which some of us could get free apart from others , if there were some way by which some of us could have heaven while others had ...
... death . You do not think so , but it is true , and it ought to be true . For if there were some way by which some of us could get free apart from others , if there were some way by which some of us could have heaven while others had ...
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... death , For you love , yet you refrain . I break my heart on your hard unfaith , And I break my heart in vain . Yet not for an hour do I wish undone The deed beyond the grave , When I was a King in Babylon And you were a Virgin Slave ...
... death , For you love , yet you refrain . I break my heart on your hard unfaith , And I break my heart in vain . Yet not for an hour do I wish undone The deed beyond the grave , When I was a King in Babylon And you were a Virgin Slave ...
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