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 42
... once one of those children who danced to the organ - grinder . Those grotesque and lum- bering steps are all that is left of the promise of childhood . In the befogged recesses of her brain has arisen a fleeting memory that she was once ...
... once one of those children who danced to the organ - grinder . Those grotesque and lum- bering steps are all that is left of the promise of childhood . In the befogged recesses of her brain has arisen a fleeting memory that she was once ...
Page 46
... Once upon a time there was an en- chanted forest . It had been stripped of all verdure , it was wild and forbidding . The trees , tossed by the bitter winter wind that never ceased , struck one another with a sound as of breaking swords ...
... Once upon a time there was an en- chanted forest . It had been stripped of all verdure , it was wild and forbidding . The trees , tossed by the bitter winter wind that never ceased , struck one another with a sound as of breaking swords ...
Page 47
... once induce him with his own hand to terminate the scene of misery : but happily the con- tempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial , and life acquires an imaginary value in pro- portion as its real value ...
... once induce him with his own hand to terminate the scene of misery : but happily the con- tempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial , and life acquires an imaginary value in pro- portion as its real value ...
Page 49
... those eyes are the eyes as of one dead ! Who was this Christ Who is to aid us , and Whose blood we drink ? What was it they once taught us at school ? Didst Thou not love mankind ? And didst Thou not die for the. SCRAP BOOK Page 49.
... those eyes are the eyes as of one dead ! Who was this Christ Who is to aid us , and Whose blood we drink ? What was it they once taught us at school ? Didst Thou not love mankind ? And didst Thou not die for the. SCRAP BOOK Page 49.
Page 51
... Once , a long , long time ago , God , feelin ' tired , went to sleep an ' had a nice wee nap on His throne . His head was in His han's an ' a wee white cloud came down an ' covered Him up . Purty soon He wakes up an ' says He ...
... Once , a long , long time ago , God , feelin ' tired , went to sleep an ' had a nice wee nap on His throne . His head was in His han's an ' a wee white cloud came down an ' covered Him up . Purty soon He wakes up an ' says He ...
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