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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... remember Keats' dream of “a very pleasant life.” “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and ...
... remember Keats' dream of “a very pleasant life.” “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and ...
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... remembers that musical composition is taught (a monstrous pretension) in this country by people who read scores, and never by any chance listen to performances. Now, the right way to go to work—strange as it may appear—is to look at ...
... remembers that musical composition is taught (a monstrous pretension) in this country by people who read scores, and never by any chance listen to performances. Now, the right way to go to work—strange as it may appear—is to look at ...
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... remember, had pity forus all and so taught us. Have pity when thereisstill time, believe me, that is right.I was once for example, employed as a watchman, at a country place which belongedto anengineer, not farfrom the city of Tomsk, in ...
... remember, had pity forus all and so taught us. Have pity when thereisstill time, believe me, that is right.I was once for example, employed as a watchman, at a country place which belongedto anengineer, not farfrom the city of Tomsk, in ...
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... remember just the words of the story, but God said: 'Moses, you're a Jew. You ain't got no. LOOKING. more and more like an orchid, Yetta stood the real one, thebloodmounting to her cheeks, and waited for said when the business with the ...
... remember just the words of the story, but God said: 'Moses, you're a Jew. You ain't got no. LOOKING. more and more like an orchid, Yetta stood the real one, thebloodmounting to her cheeks, and waited for said when the business with the ...
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... remembering always the estimation of thewidow's mite, thatit is not everyone that asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worthy of the inquiry, orthe deservingmay suffer. Do not conceive that fine clothesmake fine men, any more ...
... remembering always the estimation of thewidow's mite, thatit is not everyone that asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worthy of the inquiry, orthe deservingmay suffer. Do not conceive that fine clothesmake fine men, any more ...
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