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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... grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at hand,” replies the Finsteraarhorn; “well, and yonder, far away, in the ...
... grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at hand,” replies the Finsteraarhorn; “well, and yonder, far away, in the ...
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... grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet has humanfoot trodeither the Jungfrau or the Finsteraarhorn, by Turgenef E said, “I see.” And they said: “He's crazy; crucify him.” He still said: “I see.” And they ...
... grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet has humanfoot trodeither the Jungfrau or the Finsteraarhorn, by Turgenef E said, “I see.” And they said: “He's crazy; crucify him.” He still said: “I see.” And they ...
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... grows—is the only possible god.—R. G. Ingersoll. ANEW. era is dawning on the world. We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness The golden poppy God's gold, is The gold that lifts, nor weighs us down, The gold knows no ...
... grows—is the only possible god.—R. G. Ingersoll. ANEW. era is dawning on the world. We are beginning to believe in the religion of usefulness The golden poppy God's gold, is The gold that lifts, nor weighs us down, The gold knows no ...
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... grow.—Abraham Lincoln. T. It's a boomerang to you. “The Boomerang,” by Capt. Jack Crawford DUCATION does not mean teaching people what they do not HAT we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us—that should respect the ...
... grow.—Abraham Lincoln. T. It's a boomerang to you. “The Boomerang,” by Capt. Jack Crawford DUCATION does not mean teaching people what they do not HAT we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us—that should respect the ...
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... growing form. All high ideals will be realized. This one perceives whotakes along view—the triumph of ideality over apathy, indolence and dust. Thereis nothing in history, dark as muchofit is,tocheck the belief that man willat last be ...
... growing form. All high ideals will be realized. This one perceives whotakes along view—the triumph of ideality over apathy, indolence and dust. Thereis nothing in history, dark as muchofit is,tocheck the belief that man willat last be ...
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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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