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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Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats' dream. Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find “full Poesy” and “distilled Prose,” of a pleasing savor tothe tongue and a strangely ...
Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats' dream. Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find “full Poesy” and “distilled Prose,” of a pleasing savor tothe tongue and a strangely ...
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Thereupon, thetribe seeing that the words were certainly alive,and fearinglest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, they took and killed him. But later they saw that the magic was in the ...
Thereupon, thetribe seeing that the words were certainly alive,and fearinglest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, they took and killed him. But later they saw that the magic was in the ...
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... themendicantfriar of a large parish, the absolute monarch of a dozen acorns.—Longfellow. Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea: I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, W For, lo! my own shall come to me.
... themendicantfriar of a large parish, the absolute monarch of a dozen acorns.—Longfellow. Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea: I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, W For, lo! my own shall come to me.
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Swollen, tearful eyes, blue lips, bristling rags, unclean sores. . . .. Oh, how horribly had poverty gnawed that unhappy being! He stretched out to me a red, bloated, dirty hand. . .He moaned, he bellowed for help.
Swollen, tearful eyes, blue lips, bristling rags, unclean sores. . . .. Oh, how horribly had poverty gnawed that unhappy being! He stretched out to me a red, bloated, dirty hand. . .He moaned, he bellowed for help.
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says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at hand,” replies the Finsteraarhorn; “well, and yonder, far away, in the valleys there is stilla spot, and something is moving.” “And now?
says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us, close at hand,” replies the Finsteraarhorn; “well, and yonder, far away, in the valleys there is stilla spot, and something is moving.” “And now?
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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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