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
... force you from the rock to which you cling . The silence , the sheer depth , the gloom , burden you . It is a relief to feel the firm earth beneath your feet again , as you carefully crawl back from your perching- place se se But this ...
... force you from the rock to which you cling . The silence , the sheer depth , the gloom , burden you . It is a relief to feel the firm earth beneath your feet again , as you carefully crawl back from your perching- place se se But this ...
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... forces of the frost , by file of snow- plunge and glacier , and the mountain- torrents , by the hot breath of the balmy Spring , those walls have been cut into the most various and surprising shapes . I have seen the " Middle Ages ...
... forces of the frost , by file of snow- plunge and glacier , and the mountain- torrents , by the hot breath of the balmy Spring , those walls have been cut into the most various and surprising shapes . I have seen the " Middle Ages ...
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... force , where success means 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 ...
... force , where success means 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 ...
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... force . -Ernest Renan . IT is a truly sublime spec- tacle when in the stillness of the night , in an un- clouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it were divide exis- tence in to two portions , -the one ...
... force . -Ernest Renan . IT is a truly sublime spec- tacle when in the stillness of the night , in an un- clouded sky , the stars , like the world's choir , rise and set , and as it were divide exis- tence in to two portions , -the one ...
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... forces of the universe , and beyond these the sense of the eternal now , of the immortal . Full aware that all has failed , yet , side by side with the sadness of that knowledge , there lives on in me an unquenchable belief , thought ...
... forces of the universe , and beyond these the sense of the eternal now , of the immortal . Full aware that all has failed , yet , side by side with the sadness of that knowledge , there lives on in me an unquenchable belief , thought ...
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