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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... seem to see fewer of the little beetles,” thunders the Finsteraarhorn. “Things have become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost ...
... seem to see fewer of the little beetles,” thunders the Finsteraarhorn. “Things have become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost ...
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... seems yesterday. His face the same as So like to life, socalm, bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread. I gaze onhim and say: Heis not dead, But sleeps; and soon he will ariseand take Me by the hand. I know he ...
... seems yesterday. His face the same as So like to life, socalm, bears not a trace Of that great change which all of us so dread. I gaze onhim and say: Heis not dead, But sleeps; and soon he will ariseand take Me by the hand. I know he ...
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... seems to me sort of as if—during this strike—I'd seen a Blazing Bush. Anyhow I've seen mypeople in bondage.And I don't want to go to college and be a lady. Iguess thekind princess could n't understand why Moses wanted tobe a poor ...
... seems to me sort of as if—during this strike—I'd seen a Blazing Bush. Anyhow I've seen mypeople in bondage.And I don't want to go to college and be a lady. Iguess thekind princess could n't understand why Moses wanted tobe a poor ...
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... seems as if God the poetry; He formed it, and sculpture; that was He varied and colored it, and that was painting; and then, crowning all, He peopleditwithliving beings, and that was the grand divine, eternal drama.—Charlotte Cushman ...
... seems as if God the poetry; He formed it, and sculpture; that was He varied and colored it, and that was painting; and then, crowning all, He peopleditwithliving beings, and that was the grand divine, eternal drama.—Charlotte Cushman ...
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... seems to wait a moment on its verge, then it passes with a single bound, three hundred and fifty feet below. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch ...
... seems to wait a moment on its verge, then it passes with a single bound, three hundred and fifty feet below. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch ...
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