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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For him itwas the quest that mattered, it was the questhe loved The Reader will remember Keats' dream of “a very pleasant life.” “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a ...
For him itwas the quest that mattered, it was the questhe loved The Reader will remember Keats' dream of “a very pleasant life.” “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a ...
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The tears fill my astonished eyes, And my full heart isliketo break, And yet it is embannered lies, A dream those drummers make. Oh, it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous, grinning thing that stalks Hidden inmusic likea queen That in a ...
The tears fill my astonished eyes, And my full heart isliketo break, And yet it is embannered lies, A dream those drummers make. Oh, it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous, grinning thing that stalks Hidden inmusic likea queen That in a ...
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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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It is the urge, the push in the great force within us, which is perpetually prodding us to do our best and refusesto accept our second best.—Orison Swett Marden. THE. faculty to dream was not given ...
It is the urge, the push in the great force within us, which is perpetually prodding us to do our best and refusesto accept our second best.—Orison Swett Marden. THE. faculty to dream was not given ...
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Seam, and gusset, and band,— Band, and gusset, and seam,— Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew themon in a dream! “O Men, with sisters dear! O Men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' ...
Seam, and gusset, and band,— Band, and gusset, and seam,— Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew themon in a dream! “O Men, with sisters dear! O Men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' ...
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