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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villain—the man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are by some freak of nature inverted,so that not only are love, pity, and honor loathsome tohim, and the affectation of them which society imposes onhim a constant ...
villain—the man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are by some freak of nature inverted,so that not only are love, pity, and honor loathsome tohim, and the affectation of them which society imposes onhim a constant ...
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An artistic Prometheus, he stole the celestial fire, andwith it put life into what was inert, and expressed theimmaterial and evasive sides of nature in his breathing forms.—Emile Michel. STEP by step my investigation of blindness led ...
An artistic Prometheus, he stole the celestial fire, andwith it put life into what was inert, and expressed theimmaterial and evasive sides of nature in his breathing forms.—Emile Michel. STEP by step my investigation of blindness led ...
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The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures, and the force that is in every atom and in every star—in everything that lives and grows—is the only possible god.—R. G. Ingersoll.
The books filled with the facts of Nature are our sacred scriptures, and the force that is in every atom and in every star—in everything that lives and grows—is the only possible god.—R. G. Ingersoll.
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Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee. May Ialso touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills allhigh souls.
Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee. May Ialso touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills allhigh souls.
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HAT is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows ...
HAT is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows ...
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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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