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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... scarcely more to be found than a soiled twig, a dirtyseed,a dead leaf, black mould, or a rotting feather.—H. G. Wells. Speech is the index of the mind.—Seneca. villain—the man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are.
... scarcely more to be found than a soiled twig, a dirtyseed,a dead leaf, black mould, or a rotting feather.—H. G. Wells. Speech is the index of the mind.—Seneca. villain—the man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are.
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... cold fingers. “Never mind, brother,” hemumbled. “Thanksfor this also, brother.—This also isan alms, brother.” I understood that I had received an alms from my brother.—“The Beggar Man,” by Turgenef. Drudgery is as necessary to call.
... cold fingers. “Never mind, brother,” hemumbled. “Thanksfor this also, brother.—This also isan alms, brother.” I understood that I had received an alms from my brother.—“The Beggar Man,” by Turgenef. Drudgery is as necessary to call.
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... ” by Turgenef. Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth.—Margaret Fuller. are your articlesso interesting?” Ireplythat there so interesting as philosophy,
... ” by Turgenef. Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasurers of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth.—Margaret Fuller. are your articlesso interesting?” Ireplythat there so interesting as philosophy,
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... mind on the smallest point about one of the fifty, he will audaciously take it upon himself to explain the development of painting from Zeuxis and Apelles to Raphael and Michelangelo As to the way he will go on about music, of which he ...
... mind on the smallest point about one of the fifty, he will audaciously take it upon himself to explain the development of painting from Zeuxis and Apelles to Raphael and Michelangelo As to the way he will go on about music, of which he ...
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... mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest itfrom theowner.It points the martyr's path to the future; it guides the reaper's hand in the present, andit turns the ...
... mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest itfrom theowner.It points the martyr's path to the future; it guides the reaper's hand in the present, andit turns the ...
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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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