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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... 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 philosopher, you must do all thesethings unconditionally. You must ...
... 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 philosopher, you must do all thesethings unconditionally. You must ...
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... cost a sigh, a tear; Thensteal away, give little warning, Choose thineowntime; Say not GoodNight—but in some brighter clime Bid me GoodMorning. “Life,” by Anna Letitia Barbauld T I HERE has arisen in society a figure which.
... cost a sigh, a tear; Thensteal away, give little warning, Choose thineowntime; Say not GoodNight—but in some brighter clime Bid me GoodMorning. “Life,” by Anna Letitia Barbauld T I HERE has arisen in society a figure which.
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... 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; it guides the reaper's ...
... 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; it guides the reaper's ...
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... 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 hand ax. Yes, they were a pair of splendid fellows. I said to them, If you had asked for bread! Then they ...
... 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 hand ax. Yes, they were a pair of splendid fellows. I said to them, If you had asked for bread! Then they ...
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... 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 mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as ...
... 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 mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as ...
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