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 22
... perhaps toiled hopelessly and amid the sneers of those who were only the children of dust . Music , now so infinite in extent and sweetness , is such a monu- ment . The first rude harps are broken and lost ; dead the hands that smote ...
... perhaps toiled hopelessly and amid the sneers of those who were only the children of dust . Music , now so infinite in extent and sweetness , is such a monu- ment . The first rude harps are broken and lost ; dead the hands that smote ...
Page 27
... perhaps , but otherwise alone with his books . Let after flower , By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ; we do not refer to the desires that turn to Dead Sea fruit on our ...
... perhaps , but otherwise alone with his books . Let after flower , By the desires that have divinity in them , we do not refer to the things that we want but do not need ; we do not refer to the desires that turn to Dead Sea fruit on our ...
Page 31
... perhaps , no woman , whether she have borne children , or be merely potentially a child - bearer , who could look down upon a battlefield covered with slain , but the thought would rise in her , " So many mother's sons ! So many young ...
... perhaps , no woman , whether she have borne children , or be merely potentially a child - bearer , who could look down upon a battlefield covered with slain , but the thought would rise in her , " So many mother's sons ! So many young ...
Page 33
... perhaps prophet- ically shadowed forth ; where the two Natural Ene- mies , in person , take each a To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such ...
... perhaps prophet- ically shadowed forth ; where the two Natural Ene- mies , in person , take each a To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such ...
Page 45
... perhaps more shocking than the bad passions it calls forth . To my mind , this contempt of human nature is singularly offensive . To hate expresses something like respect . But in war , man treats his brother as nothing worth ; sweeps ...
... perhaps more shocking than the bad passions it calls forth . To my mind , this contempt of human nature is singularly offensive . To hate expresses something like respect . But in war , man treats his brother as nothing worth ; sweeps ...
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