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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Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply: “Dense clouds veil the earth . . . Wait!” More thousands of years elapse, as it were one minute.
Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply: “Dense clouds veil the earth . . . Wait!” More thousands of years elapse, as it were one minute.
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“Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as in ...
“Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as in ...
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... better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell, who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow men but dares not.
... better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes home a hell, who vents upon the helpless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow men but dares not.
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LL higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account ifthey donot comeforward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolveupon him in the ordinary affairsof life.—Henry Ward Beecher.
LL higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account ifthey donot comeforward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolveupon him in the ordinary affairsof life.—Henry Ward Beecher.
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The orator that stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless one with awisdom, a language anda presence better than were found in those actual incarnations.
The orator that stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless one with awisdom, a language anda presence better than were found in those actual incarnations.
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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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