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 32
... 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 , belong- ing to the earthly , is silent in the perfect stillness of night ; whilst 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 , belong- ing to the earthly , is silent in the perfect stillness of night ; whilst the ...
Page 39
... night has a thousand eyes , And the day but one , Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun . The mind has a thousand eyes , And the heart but one , Yet the light of a whole life dies When its love is done . -Francis W ...
... night has a thousand eyes , And the day but one , Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun . The mind has a thousand eyes , And the heart but one , Yet the light of a whole life dies When its love is done . -Francis W ...
Page 40
... night , And all its members tremble with affright ! Oh , let it hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their best- loved ones , Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the ...
... night , And all its members tremble with affright ! Oh , let it hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their best- loved ones , Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her , deluded , where its guns Had dyed the ...
Page 46
... nights and sunless days that seemed like nights , all living things trembled with the first call of spring , the trees became afraid of the sap that began to move within them . And the solitary and bitter spirit that had its dwelling ...
... nights and sunless days that seemed like nights , all living things trembled with the first call of spring , the trees became afraid of the sap that began to move within them . And the solitary and bitter spirit that had its dwelling ...
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... night , and am feeling uneasy and limp . And now we are sitting close - packed in church se☛ The organ is play- ing a voluntary . I am leaning back and strain- ing my ears for the sounds in the dim twilight of the building Childhood's ...
... night , and am feeling uneasy and limp . And now we are sitting close - packed in church se☛ The organ is play- ing a voluntary . I am leaning back and strain- ing my ears for the sounds in the dim twilight of the building Childhood's ...
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