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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Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats' dream. Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find “full Poesy” and “distilled Prose,” of a pleasing savor tothe tongue and a strangely ...
Elbert Hubbard's lifelong labor has placed in all our hands the power to realize Keats' dream. Here in Hubbard's Scrap Book the Reader will find “full Poesy” and “distilled Prose,” of a pleasing savor tothe tongue and a strangely ...
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One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the rights of man will compensate for alife of labor, will crown a career with glory, and give a joy that is born of the divinities. There is no true orator whois not also a ...
One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the rights of man will compensate for alife of labor, will crown a career with glory, and give a joy that is born of the divinities. There is no true orator whois not also a ...
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WO contrary laws stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor, of salvation, which strives to deliver ...
WO contrary laws stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor, of salvation, which strives to deliver ...
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