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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... perfect exercise and kingly continence of theirbodies and souls. It isa painful, continual and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, bywatching, bywarning, by precept, and by praise,but above all—by example —John Ruskin AD ...
... perfect exercise and kingly continence of theirbodies and souls. It isa painful, continual and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, bywatching, bywarning, by precept, and by praise,but above all—by example —John Ruskin AD ...
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... perfect star inthe expanse of thought. The orator that stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless one with awisdom, a language anda presence better than were ...
... perfect star inthe expanse of thought. The orator that stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless one with awisdom, a language anda presence better than were ...
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... perfect cause—and that goodluck is anothername for tenacity of purpose.—Emerson. O be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier forhis presence, to renounce when that shall ...
... perfect cause—and that goodluck is anothername for tenacity of purpose.—Emerson. O be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier forhis presence, to renounce when that shall ...
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