Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 - 228 pages A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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... ing us , in overturning our plans and causing us suffering , He is doing all this to deliver us , to open the Infinite to us . - Victor Hugo . tints are gone , as if the autumnal rains had. ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK ...
... ing us , in overturning our plans and causing us suffering , He is doing all this to deliver us , to open the Infinite to us . - Victor Hugo . tints are gone , as if the autumnal rains had. ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK ...
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... suffering in order to enjoy a miserable I understood that I had received an alms from my brother . " The Beggar Man , " by Turgenef . Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the ...
... suffering in order to enjoy a miserable I understood that I had received an alms from my brother . " The Beggar Man , " by Turgenef . Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the ...
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... suffer- ings and burdens of men , I became aware as never be- fore of the life- power that has sur- HERE has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mourn- ful , and in some respects the most awful , upon which the eye of ...
... suffer- ings and burdens of men , I became aware as never be- fore of the life- power that has sur- HERE has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mourn- ful , and in some respects the most awful , upon which the eye of ...
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... suffering humanity . The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the ...
... suffering humanity . The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the ...
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... suffering to thou- sands of human be- ings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civili- zation , torn from their ...
... suffering to thou- sands of human be- ings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prisonwalls ; by the fears in- spired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civili- zation , torn from their ...
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