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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... becomes stale—But when will it do so? Never—When a man has arrived at acertain ripenessin intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a startingpost towards all the 'twoandthirty Palaces.' How happy is such a voyage of ...
... becomes stale—But when will it do so? Never—When a man has arrived at acertain ripenessin intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a startingpost towards all the 'twoandthirty Palaces.' How happy is such a voyage of ...
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... become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at ...
... become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at ...
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... becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that heis heis there is not thinking, with the deeds that doing, when forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger ...
... becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that heis heis there is not thinking, with the deeds that doing, when forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger ...
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... , slipshod, halffinished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness whichturnswork intoart. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.—William Mathews. WE are taught, many of us, from our youth onwards,
... , slipshod, halffinished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness whichturnswork intoart. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.—William Mathews. WE are taught, many of us, from our youth onwards,
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... Euclid. Idealism is not the. OUR. world is pervaded and deeply moved by the power of ideals. There isno perfect statesman, or poet, or artist, but the pursuits become detached, our faith, as though to show us that nothing is.
... Euclid. Idealism is not the. OUR. world is pervaded and deeply moved by the power of ideals. There isno perfect statesman, or poet, or artist, but the pursuits become detached, our faith, as though to show us that nothing is.
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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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