Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own UseW.H. Wise & Company, 1923 - 228 páginas A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. |
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... words . He saw , he told , he de- scribed the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion , we are assured , that the words became alive and walked up and down in the hearts of all his hearers . " Thereupon , the tribe seeing that the ...
... words . He saw , he told , he de- scribed the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion , we are assured , that the words became alive and walked up and down in the hearts of all his hearers . " Thereupon , the tribe seeing that the ...
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... word to say , Some kindly deed to do ; for loving thought Was warp and woof of which his life was wrought . He is not dead . Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give . " Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell high souls ...
... word to say , Some kindly deed to do ; for loving thought Was warp and woof of which his life was wrought . He is not dead . Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give . " Mystery , " by Jerome B. Bell high souls ...
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... words of the story , but God said : ' Moses , you ' re a Jew . You ain't got no business with the Egyptians . Take off those fine clothes and go back to your own people and help them escape from bondage . ' Well . Of course , I ain't ...
... words of the story , but God said : ' Moses , you ' re a Jew . You ain't got no business with the Egyptians . Take off those fine clothes and go back to your own people and help them escape from bondage . ' Well . Of course , I ain't ...
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... words to Moses , the Lawgiver , as recorded in the third chapter of Exodus . I think it ' s the seventh verse : ' And the Lord said , I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt , and have heard their cry by reason ...
... words to Moses , the Lawgiver , as recorded in the third chapter of Exodus . I think it ' s the seventh verse : ' And the Lord said , I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt , and have heard their cry by reason ...
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... words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Samuel Johnson . Ꮽ Ꮽ . There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation . -Hitopadesa . pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson ...
... words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Samuel Johnson . Ꮽ Ꮽ . There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation . -Hitopadesa . pulses through the politic . - Woodrow Wilson ...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista completa - 1923 |
ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Lincoln army battle beauty believe blood creatures dead dear death delight divine dream earth Edgar Lee Masters Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face fear feel Finsteraarhorn fire flowers friends genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory hand happy Hardy hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord Mary Baker Eddy matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Robert Robert Louis Stevenson seems sleep soul speak spirit stand stars Stevenson sweet tears tell thee things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth virtue Waterloo William woman words youth Ꮽ Ꮽ
Pasajes populares
Página 111 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent ; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory ! NOTE ON PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, BY MRS.
Página 28 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Página 135 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Página 24 - In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Página 133 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 99 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Página 174 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 165 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that ''I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Página 168 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Página 161 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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