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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We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness The golden poppy God's gold, is The gold that lifts, nor weighs us down, The gold knows no miser's hold, that The gold that banks notin the town, But singing, laughing, ...
We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness The golden poppy God's gold, is The gold that lifts, nor weighs us down, The gold knows no miser's hold, that The gold that banks notin the town, But singing, laughing, ...
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Have pity when thereisstill time, believe me, that is right.I was once for example, employed as a watchman, at a country place which belongedto anengineer, not farfrom the city of Tomsk, in Siberia. Thehouse stood inthe middle of the ...
Have pity when thereisstill time, believe me, that is right.I was once for example, employed as a watchman, at a country place which belongedto anengineer, not farfrom the city of Tomsk, in Siberia. Thehouse stood inthe middle of the ...
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Idon't believe there's ever beena year when there was n't dozens here inNew York. When we began, the skirtfinishers was out. They lost their strike. They went hungry just thewaywe did, but nobody helped them. And they're worse now than ...
Idon't believe there's ever beena year when there was n't dozens here inNew York. When we began, the skirtfinishers was out. They lost their strike. They went hungry just thewaywe did, but nobody helped them. And they're worse now than ...
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Wedo not believethata house dividedagainst itselfshall stand; we believe that it shall fall We know that a State divided by internal feuds and torn by faction fighting can not hold its own against a united people.
Wedo not believethata house dividedagainst itselfshall stand; we believe that it shall fall We know that a State divided by internal feuds and torn by faction fighting can not hold its own against a united people.
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I am glad that children should amuse themselves with nursery stories, but it is shocking that they should be ordered to believe in them assolid facts, and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality.
I am glad that children should amuse themselves with nursery stories, but it is shocking that they should be ordered to believe in them assolid facts, and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality.
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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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