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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... sides, east, north, south and west, until at last they fell to the floor exhausted, and died. But, yesterday, I noticed among the bees, a great drone, much stronger than the bees, who was far from being dead, who, in fact, was very much ...
... sides, east, north, south and west, until at last they fell to the floor exhausted, and died. But, yesterday, I noticed among the bees, a great drone, much stronger than the bees, who was far from being dead, who, in fact, was very much ...
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... side of gifted villainy, since we see the able villain, Mephistopheleslike, doing a huge amount of good in order to win the power to do a little daring evil, out of which he is as likely as not to be cheated in the end; whilst your ...
... side of gifted villainy, since we see the able villain, Mephistopheleslike, doing a huge amount of good in order to win the power to do a little daring evil, out of which he is as likely as not to be cheated in the end; whilst your ...
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... side of the horizon: the Jungfrau and the Finsteraarhorn. Andthe Jungfrausays to its neighbor:“What news hast thou to tell? Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the ...
... side of the horizon: the Jungfrau and the Finsteraarhorn. Andthe Jungfrausays to its neighbor:“What news hast thou to tell? Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the ...
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... 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 me into.
... 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 me into.
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... ; I piped Shakespeare's chime togreat The witches' song in Macbeth. All, all who havesuffered andwon, Who have struggled and failed and died, Am I, with workstill undone, And a spearmark in my side. T T A I am part of the sea and.
... ; I piped Shakespeare's chime togreat The witches' song in Macbeth. All, all who havesuffered andwon, Who have struggled and failed and died, Am I, with workstill undone, And a spearmark in my side. T T A I am part of the sea and.
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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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