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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... look at pictures until you have acquired the power of seeing them. If you look at several thousand good pictures every year, and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them—were it only that it is not worth troubling ...
... look at pictures until you have acquired the power of seeing them. If you look at several thousand good pictures every year, and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them—were it only that it is not worth troubling ...
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... looks .. . “Everywhere is our snow, level snow and ice. Everything is. THE. summits of the Alps. . . . A whole chain of steep cliffs . . . The veryheart of the mountains. Overhead firm, H R congealed. It is well now, and calm.” “Good,”said.
... looks .. . “Everywhere is our snow, level snow and ice. Everything is. THE. summits of the Alps. . . . A whole chain of steep cliffs . . . The veryheart of the mountains. Overhead firm, H R congealed. It is well now, and calm.” “Good,”said.
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... looks only for violent conquest; the other for the relief of suffering humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories ...
... looks only for violent conquest; the other for the relief of suffering humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories ...
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... look larger and more tempting. In like manner I always make the most of my enjoyments, and, though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles, I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others ...
... look larger and more tempting. In like manner I always make the most of my enjoyments, and, though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles, I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others ...
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... look different “The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible. Well, we Jews have got a story too—perhaps it's inyour Bible—about Mosesand his people inEgypt. He'd been brought up bya rich Egyptian lady—a princess—just like ...
... look different “The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible. Well, we Jews have got a story too—perhaps it's inyour Bible—about Mosesand his people inEgypt. He'd been brought up bya rich Egyptian lady—a princess—just like ...
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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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