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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Cruel executioner, why do younot leave me alone? I am happy, and why doyou persecute me?” After trying very hard, I brought it down and, in seizing it with the napkin, I involuntarily hurtit.Oh, how ittried toavenge itself!
Cruel executioner, why do younot leave me alone? I am happy, and why doyou persecute me?” After trying very hard, I brought it down and, in seizing it with the napkin, I involuntarily hurtit.Oh, how ittried toavenge itself!
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It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves, that hang wilted on the dripping branches, or drop into the stream. Their gorgeous tints are gone, as if the autumnal rains had washed them out. Orange, yellow and scarlet, all are changed to ...
It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves, that hang wilted on the dripping branches, or drop into the stream. Their gorgeous tints are gone, as if the autumnal rains had washed them out. Orange, yellow and scarlet, all are changed to ...
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Enjoyed to their fullest, they leave you hard, wrinkled and miserable. Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can ...
Enjoyed to their fullest, they leave you hard, wrinkled and miserable. Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can ...
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... I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.—Robert Southey. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.—Dante. up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness, over,and.
... I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.—Robert Southey. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.—Dante. up on us by the sheer development and fruitfulness, over,and.
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It isnot teaching theyouth the shapesof letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, andtheir literature tolust. It means, on the contrary, trainingthem into the perfect exercise and ...
It isnot teaching theyouth the shapesof letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, andtheir literature tolust. It means, on the contrary, trainingthem into the perfect exercise and ...
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