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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... dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than 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.
... dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than 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.
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... 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 sound, ...
... 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 sound, ...
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Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the ...
Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever present audience ofthe angels thanI hope to have when I play my partupon the ...
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E live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In ravings of a maniac, but it is the calm geometry of life. Ideals try feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives Who thinks most, ...
E live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In ravings of a maniac, but it is the calm geometry of life. Ideals try feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives Who thinks most, ...
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“Invictus,” by W. E. Henley N the beginning, men went forth each day—some to do battle, someto thechase; others, again, to dig and todelve in the field— all that they might gain and live, or lose and die. Until there was found among ...
“Invictus,” by W. E. Henley N the beginning, men went forth each day—some to do battle, someto thechase; others, again, to dig and todelve in the field— all that they might gain and live, or lose and die. Until there was found among ...
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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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