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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Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man, and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince. T. ELBERT. HUBBARD'S. SCRAP. BOOK. PROVIDENCE—AN. APOLOGUE. HE other evening I was a little late in going down to ...
Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man, and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince. T. ELBERT. HUBBARD'S. SCRAP. BOOK. PROVIDENCE—AN. APOLOGUE. HE other evening I was a little late in going down to ...
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... our rash designs, whose accomplishment is either impossible or injurious to ourselves. Seeing nofarther than our noses and with our eyes fixed on our immediate aim, we plunge ahead in our blind infatuation, like madmen.
... our rash designs, whose accomplishment is either impossible or injurious to ourselves. Seeing nofarther than our noses and with our eyes fixed on our immediate aim, we plunge ahead in our blind infatuation, like madmen.
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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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... judgment about every one of them—were it only that it is not worth troubling over—then at the end of five years or so youwill, if you have a wise eye, be able tosee what is actually in apicture, and not what you think isin it.
... judgment about every one of them—were it only that it is not worth troubling over—then at the end of five years or so youwill, if you have a wise eye, be able tosee what is actually in apicture, and not what you think isin it.
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I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to ...
I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to ...
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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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