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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“I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect from it, and dream upon ...
“I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect from it, and dream upon ...
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... descriptions, and criticisms, and, having pieced an illusory humanity andart out of the effects produced by his library upon hisimagination, build some silly systematization of his worthless ideas overthe abyss of his own nescience.
... descriptions, and criticisms, and, having pieced an illusory humanity andart out of the effects produced by his library upon hisimagination, build some silly systematization of his worthless ideas overthe abyss of his own nescience.
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There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help aman who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as ...
There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help aman who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as ...
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... darts its rays through all the senses; it is in the this fire that existence consists; all observations and all of oughtto turn this me, the center the efforts philosophers towards and moving power ofour sentiments and our ideas.
... darts its rays through all the senses; it is in the this fire that existence consists; all observations and all of oughtto turn this me, the center the efforts philosophers towards and moving power ofour sentiments and our ideas.
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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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