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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The stars come nightly to the sky, The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time nor space, nor deep nor high, Can keep my own away from me. “Waiting,” by John Burroughs HAT moods, what passions, what nights of despair and gathering storms of ...
The stars come nightly to the sky, The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time nor space, nor deep nor high, Can keep my own away from me. “Waiting,” by John Burroughs HAT moods, what passions, what nights of despair and gathering storms of ...
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... fiction andfact, that save and keep all knowledge for the children yetto be; the inventors of all the wonderfulmachines that deftly mold from wood andsteel the things we use; themen who explored the heavens and traced the orbits of ...
... fiction andfact, that save and keep all knowledge for the children yetto be; the inventors of all the wonderfulmachines that deftly mold from wood andsteel the things we use; themen who explored the heavens and traced the orbits of ...
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We will not only supply him withfood sufficient to keep himon his legs, but we willteach and instruct him andpoint outto him the beauties of the landscape; we will discourse sweet music to him and give him abundanceof good advice.
We will not only supply him withfood sufficient to keep himon his legs, but we willteach and instruct him andpoint outto him the beauties of the landscape; we will discourse sweet music to him and give him abundanceof good advice.
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There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood, Touch of manner, hint ofmood; And my heartis like a rhyme, With theyellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. O I N The scarlet of the maples can shake.
There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood, Touch of manner, hint ofmood; And my heartis like a rhyme, With theyellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. O I N The scarlet of the maples can shake.
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truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is eithera coward or a criminal, or both.—Max Müller. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is eithera coward or a criminal, or both.—Max Müller. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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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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