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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... body, contracted by my fingers, strained itself with all its strength inan attemptto sting me.But I ignored its protestations, and, stretching myhand out the window, opened the napkin.For a momentthe drone seemed stunned, astonished ...
... body, contracted by my fingers, strained itself with all its strength inan attemptto sting me.But I ignored its protestations, and, stretching myhand out the window, opened the napkin.For a momentthe drone seemed stunned, astonished ...
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... bodies. They, my daughter, were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the hand ax. Yes, they were a pair of splendid fellows. I said to them, If you had asked for bread! Then they answered: We had gotten past that. Wehad asked and ...
... bodies. They, my daughter, were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the hand ax. Yes, they were a pair of splendid fellows. I said to them, If you had asked for bread! Then they answered: We had gotten past that. Wehad asked and ...
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... body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.—Sir Thomas Overbury. MAN without mirthislike a wagon without springs, in ...
... body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.—Sir Thomas Overbury. MAN without mirthislike a wagon without springs, in ...
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