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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... a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf, warm perfectionin every stirring egg, hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows come they have all gone—ofall that incalculable abundance ...
... a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf, warm perfectionin every stirring egg, hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows come they have all gone—ofall that incalculable abundance ...
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The huge mountains slumber; the green, clear heaven slumbers over the earth whichhas grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet has humanfoot trodeither the Jungfrau or the Finsteraarhorn, by Turgenef E said, ...
The huge mountains slumber; the green, clear heaven slumbers over the earth whichhas grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet has humanfoot trodeither the Jungfrau or the Finsteraarhorn, by Turgenef E said, ...
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He will possess something higher than all these—a great country, the whole earth, and agreat hope, the whole heaven.—Victor Hugo. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.— Margaret Fuller.
He will possess something higher than all these—a great country, the whole earth, and agreat hope, the whole heaven.—Victor Hugo. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.— Margaret Fuller.
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But if his children rush to the front door to meet him and love's sunshine illuminates the face of his wife every time she hears his footfall, youcan take it for granted that he is pure, for his home is a heaven—and the humbug never ...
But if his children rush to the front door to meet him and love's sunshine illuminates the face of his wife every time she hears his footfall, youcan take it for granted that he is pure, for his home is a heaven—and the humbug never ...
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I've AM not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.— Samuel Johnson. There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa.
I've AM not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.— Samuel Johnson. There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa.
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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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