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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... against the eroding sameness of the workaday world. Suchat least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors. THE PUBLISHERS. he had done. As soon ashe beganto speak, he was.
... against the eroding sameness of the workaday world. Suchat least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors. THE PUBLISHERS. he had done. As soon ashe beganto speak, he was.
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... 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 of life, of all that hope and adventure, excitement and deliciousness, there is ...
... 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 of life, of all that hope and adventure, excitement and deliciousness, there is ...
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... 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. Themen who felled the forests, cultivated the earth, spanned the.
... 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. Themen who felled the forests, cultivated the earth, spanned the.
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... hope to have when I play my partupon the mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as in stress or trial, God of my soul,help me toplay the man. Amen!—“The Actor's Prayer,” by Dr. Frank Crane. HAT is the law of nature ...
... hope to have when I play my partupon the mimic stage. Ever, inall junctures, in hours of lightness as in stress or trial, God of my soul,help me toplay the man. Amen!—“The Actor's Prayer,” by Dr. Frank Crane. HAT is the law of nature ...
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... hope, selftorturing envy, conceit, aware,in maddening, lucid moments, ofitsownfolly —Edmund Gosse Y share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact thatit is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a ...
... hope, selftorturing envy, conceit, aware,in maddening, lucid moments, ofitsownfolly —Edmund Gosse Y share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact thatit is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a ...
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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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