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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Let the reader browse but a moment and—to use Keats' image—he will find the sails of his soul set forone ofthose high voyages of the spirit which givetolife its most exalted meaning, and bring back as cargo the thricetried goldof ...
Let the reader browse but a moment and—to use Keats' image—he will find the sails of his soul set forone ofthose high voyages of the spirit which givetolife its most exalted meaning, and bring back as cargo the thricetried goldof ...
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Iam the great spirit that stands silently by, here, asin mystery What isthis that men call death? My friend before me lies; inall save breath He seems yesterday. His face the same as So like to life, socalm, bears not a trace Of that ...
Iam the great spirit that stands silently by, here, asin mystery What isthis that men call death? My friend before me lies; inall save breath He seems yesterday. His face the same as So like to life, socalm, bears not a trace Of that ...
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She stoppeda moment, and a strange look came over her face—a look of communication with some distant spirit. When she spoke again, her words were unintelligible to most of the audience. Some of the Jewish vestmakers understood.
She stoppeda moment, and a strange look came over her face—a look of communication with some distant spirit. When she spoke again, her words were unintelligible to most of the audience. Some of the Jewish vestmakers understood.
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And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir; We must follow her, When from every hill aflame, Shecalls and calls eachvagabond by name.
And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills. There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir; We must follow her, When from every hill aflame, Shecalls and calls eachvagabond by name.
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I have dedicated every power there is in me to bring the colleges that I have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit, and I shall not be satisfied until America shall know that the men in the colleges are ...
I have dedicated every power there is in me to bring the colleges that I have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit, and I shall not be satisfied until America shall know that the men in the colleges are ...
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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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