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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And you must transact business, wirepull politics, discuss religion, give and receive hate, love,and friendship withall sorts of people before you can acquire the sense of humanity. If youare to acquire the sense sufficiently to be a ...
And you must transact business, wirepull politics, discuss religion, give and receive hate, love,and friendship withall sorts of people before you can acquire the sense of humanity. If youare to acquire the sense sufficiently to be a ...
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Life! we've long together been Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T ishard to part when friends are dear— Perhaps't will cost a sigh, a tear; Thensteal away, give little warning, Choose thineowntime; Say not GoodNight—but in ...
Life! we've long together been Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T ishard to part when friends are dear— Perhaps't will cost a sigh, a tear; Thensteal away, give little warning, Choose thineowntime; Say not GoodNight—but in ...
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Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest itfrom theowner.It points the martyr's path to the future; ...
Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest itfrom theowner.It points the martyr's path to the future; ...
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And when they had each had a sound beating, they said to me: Grandfather, said they, for the sake of Christ give us apiece of bread. We have n't a bite in our bodies. They, my daughter, were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the ...
And when they had each had a sound beating, they said to me: Grandfather, said they, for the sake of Christ give us apiece of bread. We have n't a bite in our bodies. They, my daughter, were the thieves who had fallen upon me with the ...
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Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the ...
Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the ...
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