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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... 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? Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and ...
... 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? Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and ...
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... hour: flourish, they Alive they and alive fall, AndEarth who nourished them receives them all. Should we, her wiser sons, be less content To sink into her lap when life is spent? “Leaf After Leaf Drops Off,” by Walter Savage Landor ...
... hour: flourish, they Alive they and alive fall, AndEarth who nourished them receives them all. Should we, her wiser sons, be less content To sink into her lap when life is spent? “Leaf After Leaf Drops Off,” by Walter Savage Landor ...
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... hour at a time; yet in many diligent halfhours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny ...
... hour at a time; yet in many diligent halfhours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny ...
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... with blood It isas ifthe most glorious sunset you ever saw had been caught and helduponthat resplendent, awful gorge. Throughout nearly all the hours of that afternoon until the sunset I S T I H shadows came, and afterwards among.
... with blood It isas ifthe most glorious sunset you ever saw had been caught and helduponthat resplendent, awful gorge. Throughout nearly all the hours of that afternoon until the sunset I S T I H shadows came, and afterwards among.
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