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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... light of intelligence, and, behold, the outer daylit world was stumbling and gropinginsocial blindness. At first Iwas most unhappy;but deeper study restored my confidence By learning the sufferings and burdens ofmen, I becameaware as ...
... light of intelligence, and, behold, the outer daylit world was stumbling and gropinginsocial blindness. At first Iwas most unhappy;but deeper study restored my confidence By learning the sufferings and burdens ofmen, I becameaware as ...
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... all these—a great country, the whole earth, and agreat hope, the whole heaven.—Victor Hugo. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.— Margaret Fuller. Themen who felled the forests, cultivated the earth, spanned the.
... all these—a great country, the whole earth, and agreat hope, the whole heaven.—Victor Hugo. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.— Margaret Fuller. Themen who felled the forests, cultivated the earth, spanned the.
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... light; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul, the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak, the marble live; the great orators who have swayed the world, the composers who have given their souls to ...
... light; the great poets whose thoughts have charmed the soul, the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak, the marble live; the great orators who have swayed the world, the composers who have given their souls to ...
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... ofthe commonest human the devout any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the gloryofa noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face. —Balzac. own fireside. There he lays aside his maskand you may.
... ofthe commonest human the devout any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the gloryofa noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face. —Balzac. own fireside. There he lays aside his maskand you may.
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