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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... divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind. There is nothing greater on this earth. 'T is the breath ofthe Eternal—the kissofthe Immortal Oratory is farabove houses and lands, offices and emoluments, possessions and power ...
... divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind. There is nothing greater on this earth. 'T is the breath ofthe Eternal—the kissofthe Immortal Oratory is farabove houses and lands, offices and emoluments, possessions and power ...
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... divine current that thrills allhigh souls. Save me from the bogs of pettiness, from egotism, selfpity, envy, and all the corrosives that mar life. I do not serve in the temple; mine is no solemn office nor critical station; but I thank ...
... divine current that thrills allhigh souls. Save me from the bogs of pettiness, from egotism, selfpity, envy, and all the corrosives that mar life. I do not serve in the temple; mine is no solemn office nor critical station; but I thank ...
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... divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. Holmes. E. HE millionaire is a new kind of man—many of them. It is XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a ...
... divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. Holmes. E. HE millionaire is a new kind of man—many of them. It is XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a ...
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... divine, eternal drama.—Charlotte Cushman. OMMERCE isa game of skill, which everyman can not play, which few mencan playwell. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call commonsense; a man of. B. T. T. C. E ...
... divine, eternal drama.—Charlotte Cushman. OMMERCE isa game of skill, which everyman can not play, which few mencan playwell. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call commonsense; a man of. B. T. T. C. E ...
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... divine things, and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine.—Friedrich Froebel. BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage; agood man—troubled on every side, yet not distressed ...
... divine things, and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine.—Friedrich Froebel. BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage; agood man—troubled on every side, yet not distressed ...
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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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