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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... the eroding sameness of the workaday world. Suchat least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors. THE PUBLISHERS. he had done. As soon ashe beganto speak, he was.
... the eroding sameness of the workaday world. Suchat least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors. THE PUBLISHERS. he had done. As soon ashe beganto speak, he was.
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... soon ashe beganto speak, he was smitten with dumbness, he lacked words, and sat down. Then there arose—according to the story—a masterless man, one who had takennopart in the actionof his fellow,who had no special virtues, but afflicted ...
... soon ashe beganto speak, he was smitten with dumbness, he lacked words, and sat down. Then there arose—according to the story—a masterless man, one who had takennopart in the actionof his fellow,who had no special virtues, but afflicted ...
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... soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.—E. W. Howe. HAVE told you of the man who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, in order that the fruit ...
... soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.—E. W. Howe. HAVE told you of the man who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, in order that the fruit ...
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... soon, Down in the dark and the damp. Nothing but blackness above, And nothing that movesbut the cars— God, if Youwish for our love, Fling usa handful of stars! “Calibanin the Coal Mines,” by Louis Untermeyer ELFISHNESS is not living as ...
... soon, Down in the dark and the damp. Nothing but blackness above, And nothing that movesbut the cars— God, if Youwish for our love, Fling usa handful of stars! “Calibanin the Coal Mines,” by Louis Untermeyer ELFISHNESS is not living as ...
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... soon as you can stand it, go out on that jutting rock again and mark the sculpturing of God upon those vast and solemn walls. By dash of wind and wave, by forces of the frost, by file of snowplunge and glacier, and the mountaintorrents ...
... soon as you can stand it, go out on that jutting rock again and mark the sculpturing of God upon those vast and solemn walls. By dash of wind and wave, by forces of the frost, by file of snowplunge and glacier, and the mountaintorrents ...
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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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