ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own UseNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.-Theodore Roosevelt Filled with some of the best words of wisdom ever written, this little volume is sure to uplift any reader. Elbert Hubbard spent much of his life carefully collecting significant quotes from throughout history. He loved searching for and finding new material to add to his scrapbook for personal inspiration. After his death, this richly developed scrapbook was published and can now be relished by readers everywhere.Here one can read pulse-quickening quotes from people like Abraham Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling, Dante, Leo Tolstoy, and many, many more. People from every profession and nationality have been quoted at their best, and these quotes have been carefully compiled for the reader's inspiration and personal growth. This unique book will furnish readers with a little genius for each day, and will inevitably make them better for it. |
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... hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows come they have all gone—ofall that incalculable abundance of life, of all that hope and adventure, excitement and deliciousness, ...
... hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows come they have all gone—ofall that incalculable abundance of life, of all that hope and adventure, excitement and deliciousness, ...
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ONVICTION brings silent, indefinable beauty a into faces made clay; worshiper at ofthe commonest human the devout any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the gloryofa noble love shines like a sort of light from a ...
ONVICTION brings silent, indefinable beauty a into faces made clay; worshiper at ofthe commonest human the devout any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the gloryofa noble love shines like a sort of light from a ...
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... If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires—'t is to be forgiven aspirations be great That in our to Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, you; for ye are And claim a kindred with A beauty and mystery, ...
... If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires—'t is to be forgiven aspirations be great That in our to Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, you; for ye are And claim a kindred with A beauty and mystery, ...
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But there is a majesty of its own kind, and beauty, too. On either side are vast pinnacles of sculptured rock. There, where the rock opens for the river, its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet, between the Upper and ...
But there is a majesty of its own kind, and beauty, too. On either side are vast pinnacles of sculptured rock. There, where the rock opens for the river, its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet, between the Upper and ...
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| Title | ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1455603791, 9781455603794 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays |
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