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 88
... honored dead we take in- creased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devo- tion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation , under God , shall have a new ...
... honored dead we take in- creased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devo- tion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation , under God , shall have a new ...
Page 91
... honors in Nature's uni- versity , who learn the laws which govern men and things and obey them , are the really great and successful men in this world . The great mass of mankind are the " Poll , " who pick up just enough to get through ...
... honors in Nature's uni- versity , who learn the laws which govern men and things and obey them , are the really great and successful men in this world . The great mass of mankind are the " Poll , " who pick up just enough to get through ...
Page 93
... honored by it . Cato is a man whom fortune has placed in the most obscure part of the country . His circumstances are such , as only put him above neces- sity , without affording him many super- fluities ; yet who is greater than Cato ...
... honored by it . Cato is a man whom fortune has placed in the most obscure part of the country . His circumstances are such , as only put him above neces- sity , without affording him many super- fluities ; yet who is greater than Cato ...
Page 95
... honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed . It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility , or taught to know how little all our ac- quisitions can conduce to safety or quiet , and ...
... honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed . It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility , or taught to know how little all our ac- quisitions can conduce to safety or quiet , and ...
Page 99
... honor and of cavaliers thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult . But the age of Chivalry is gone . That of sophisters , economists , and cal- culators has ...
... honor and of cavaliers thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult . But the age of Chivalry is gone . That of sophisters , economists , and cal- culators has ...
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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