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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... human life and civilization , any more than you can force these slow - growing trees . Thatisthe economy of Almighty God , that all good growth is slow growth . - Gaynor . His head is bowed . He thinks on men and Page 44 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
... human life and civilization , any more than you can force these slow - growing trees . Thatisthe economy of Almighty God , that all good growth is slow growth . - Gaynor . His head is bowed . He thinks on men and Page 44 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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... trees , tossed by the bitter winter wind that never ceased , struck one another with a sound as of breaking swords ... tree with peculiar insistence : And wilt thou , too , seek to join the universal love - feast , thou whose noble ...
... trees , tossed by the bitter winter wind that never ceased , struck one another with a sound as of breaking swords ... tree with peculiar insistence : And wilt thou , too , seek to join the universal love - feast , thou whose noble ...
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... trees ( now in their brightest , tenderest green ) , each leaf and branch of endless foliage a lit - up miracle , then lying all prone on the youthful - ripe , interminable grass , and giving the blades not only ag- gregate but indi ...
... trees ( now in their brightest , tenderest green ) , each leaf and branch of endless foliage a lit - up miracle , then lying all prone on the youthful - ripe , interminable grass , and giving the blades not only ag- gregate but indi ...
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... tree covered with fungus , the foliage diseased , the life gone out of the heart with dry rot , and indelibly marked for destruction - dead , but not yet handed over to the undertaker . -Luther Burbank . AN is but a very moderate amount ...
... tree covered with fungus , the foliage diseased , the life gone out of the heart with dry rot , and indelibly marked for destruction - dead , but not yet handed over to the undertaker . -Luther Burbank . AN is but a very moderate amount ...
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... trees and in the green blades of grass ; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea , and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone . And not only these minute objects , but the ocean , the mountains , the clouds ...
... trees and in the green blades of grass ; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea , and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone . And not only these minute objects , but the ocean , the mountains , the clouds ...
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