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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... come in through the open window. Whenthe windows were closed they found themselves prisoners. Unable to see the ... come to the rescue. You would have been done for, my fine fellow; before nightfall you would be lying dead, and on coming ...
... come in through the open window. Whenthe windows were closed they found themselves prisoners. Unable to see the ... come to the rescue. You would have been done for, my fine fellow; before nightfall you would be lying dead, and on coming ...
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... come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays: For what avails this eagerpace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, Thefriends Iseek are seeking me; No windcan drive my bark ...
... come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays: For what avails this eagerpace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, Thefriends Iseek are seeking me; No windcan drive my bark ...
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... come to humanity it is stillthe same: only by intercourse with men and women can we learn anything about it. This involves. TO. make my readers realize what a philosopher is, I can only say thatI am a philosopher. If you ask incredulously ...
... come to humanity it is stillthe same: only by intercourse with men and women can we learn anything about it. This involves. TO. make my readers realize what a philosopher is, I can only say thatI am a philosopher. If you ask incredulously ...
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... I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.—Robert Southey. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.—Dante. up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness, over,and.
... I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.—Robert Southey. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.—Dante. up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness, over,and.
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... come out of the workhouse today, and they tell me alady wants to give me money to study, she wants to have me go to college like I was a rich girl. It's very kind. I want to study. I ain't been to school none since I was fifteen. I ...
... come out of the workhouse today, and they tell me alady wants to give me money to study, she wants to have me go to college like I was a rich girl. It's very kind. I want to study. I ain't been to school none since I was fifteen. I ...
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