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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... it becomes stale—But when will it do so? Never—When a man has arrived at acertain ripenessin intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a startingpost towards all the 'twoandthirty Palaces.' How happy is such a ...
... it becomes stale—But when will it do so? Never—When a man has arrived at acertain ripenessin intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a startingpost towards all the 'twoandthirty Palaces.' How happy is such a ...
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I am happy, and why doyou persecute me?” After trying very hard, I brought it down and, in seizing it with the napkin, I involuntarily hurtit.Oh, how ittried toavenge itself! It dartedout itssting;its little nervous body, contracted by ...
I am happy, and why doyou persecute me?” After trying very hard, I brought it down and, in seizing it with the napkin, I involuntarily hurtit.Oh, how ittried toavenge itself! It dartedout itssting;its little nervous body, contracted by ...
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But for her, the unchallenged purity ofcountless happy homes would be polluted, and notafew who, in the prideof their untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would haveknown the agony of remorse and despair.
But for her, the unchallenged purity ofcountless happy homes would be polluted, and notafew who, in the prideof their untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would haveknown the agony of remorse and despair.
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... laughing, freely spills Its hoard far upthe happy hills; Farup, far down, at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn! “The California Poppy,” by Joaquin Miller that Jupiter sips; it offers the draft that intoxicates the.
... laughing, freely spills Its hoard far upthe happy hills; Farup, far down, at every turn— What beggar has not gold to burn! “The California Poppy,” by Joaquin Miller that Jupiter sips; it offers the draft that intoxicates the.
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“Kinship,” by Edward H. S. Terry HERE are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means—either will do—the result is the same; and itisfor each mantodecide for himself, and do that which happens to be ...
“Kinship,” by Edward H. S. Terry HERE are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means—either will do—the result is the same; and itisfor each mantodecide for himself, and do that which happens to be ...
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User Review - keylawk - LibraryThingA variety of materials collected without citation to sources, and not in any topical or sequential order, and not organized with a Table of Contents. However, three Indexes are provided with nice ... Read full review
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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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