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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... eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man, and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince. I threw open the window, and, by means of a napkin, began chasing the insect toward it; but the drone persisted in flying in the ...
... eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man, and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince. I threw open the window, and, by means of a napkin, began chasing the insect toward it; but the drone persisted in flying in the ...
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... eyes fixed on our immediate aim, we plunge ahead in our blind infatuation, like madmen. We would succeed, we would triumph; that is to say, we would break our heads against an invisible obstacle. And when God, who sees all and who ...
... eyes fixed on our immediate aim, we plunge ahead in our blind infatuation, like madmen. We would succeed, we would triumph; that is to say, we would break our heads against an invisible obstacle. And when God, who sees all and who ...
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... eyes , And my full heart is like to 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 in music like a queen That in a garden of glory ...
... eyes , And my full heart is like to 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 in music like a queen That in a garden of glory ...
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... eye of the moralist can dwell . That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection , and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned and ...
... eye of the moralist can dwell . That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection , and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned and ...
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... eyes of a king than fear to the face of a child .— “ A Man's Real Measure , " by W. C. Brann . THE List to that bird ! His song - what poet pens it ? Brigand of birds , he's stolen every note ! Prince though of thieves - hark ! how the ...
... eyes of a king than fear to the face of a child .— “ A Man's Real Measure , " by W. C. Brann . THE List to that bird ! His song - what poet pens it ? Brigand of birds , he's stolen every note ! Prince though of thieves - hark ! how the ...
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