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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... thought much about strikes till now . Well . There's been strikes all the time . I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York . When we began , the skirt - finishers was out . They lost their ...
... thought much about strikes till now . Well . There's been strikes all the time . I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York . When we began , the skirt - finishers was out . They lost their ...
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... thought , the same sympathy , that whole great body Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ,. T is undeniable that the great quest of humanity is happi- ness . But was the world created to be happy ? How many are truly happy ? I ' ve ...
... thought , the same sympathy , that whole great body Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ,. T is undeniable that the great quest of humanity is happi- ness . But was the world created to be happy ? How many are truly happy ? I ' ve ...
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... thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual ...
... thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless one with a wisdom , a language and a presence better than were found in those actual ...
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... thought of easy victory and tough- ened my sinews for fiercer battles and greater triumphs ; for mistakes I have made , and the priceless lessons I have learned from them ; for disillu- sion and disap- pointment that have cleared my ...
... thought of easy victory and tough- ened my sinews for fiercer battles and greater triumphs ; for mistakes I have made , and the priceless lessons I have learned from them ; for disillu- sion and disap- pointment that have cleared my ...
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... thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists . Only when you have worked alone have felt you around you a black ... thought- the subtile rapture of a postponed power , which the world knows not because it has no external trappings ...
... thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists . Only when you have worked alone have felt you around you a black ... thought- the subtile rapture of a postponed power , which the world knows not because it has no external trappings ...
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