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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... heart shall reap sown, And garner up the fruit of tears. The waters know their own, and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights. So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul ofpure delights. The stars come nightly to the sky ...
... heart shall reap sown, And garner up the fruit of tears. The waters know their own, and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights. So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul ofpure delights. The stars come nightly to the sky ...
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... heart isliketo break, And yet it is embannered lies, A dream those drummers make. Oh, it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous, grinning thing that stalks Hidden inmusic likea queen That in a garden of glory walks, Till good menlove the ...
... heart isliketo break, And yet it is embannered lies, A dream those drummers make. Oh, it is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous, grinning thing that stalks Hidden inmusic likea queen That in a garden of glory walks, Till good menlove the ...
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... heart of man labors towards immeasurably distant goals. Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: “Be not dismayed;in the future lies the Promised Land ...
... heart of man labors towards immeasurably distant goals. Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: “Be not dismayed;in the future lies the Promised Land ...
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... heart the transports of affection, and submits herselfas the passive instrument of lust;who isscorned and insulted as the vilestof hersex and doomed, for the mostpart, to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death, appears in ...
... heart the transports of affection, and submits herselfas the passive instrument of lust;who isscorned and insulted as the vilestof hersex and doomed, for the mostpart, to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death, appears in ...
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... within us as a great yearning.—George Eliot. HE Age of Romance has not ceased; it never ceases; itdoes not, if wewill think of it, so much as very sensibly decline.— Carlyle. gladI know every place where a human heart is beating!
... within us as a great yearning.—George Eliot. HE Age of Romance has not ceased; it never ceases; itdoes not, if wewill think of it, so much as very sensibly decline.— Carlyle. gladI know every place where a human heart is beating!
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