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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... stand amid the eternal ways , And what is mine shall know my face . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray , Nor change the tide of destiny . What matter if I stand alone ...
... stand amid the eternal ways , And what is mine shall know my face . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray , Nor change the tide of destiny . What matter if I stand alone ...
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... stand today opposed : one a law of blood and death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man ...
... stand today opposed : one a law of blood and death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which strives to deliver man ...
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... stands silently by, here, as in every place where a human heart is beating! the loose and thoughtless. Can not an actor be God's man? Can not I, whose business it is to play, be as conscientious as those in authority or peril or solemn ...
... stands silently by, here, as in every place where a human heart is beating! the loose and thoughtless. Can not an actor be God's man? Can not I, whose business it is to play, be as conscientious as those in authority or peril or solemn ...
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... stand ; we believe that it shall fall se se We know that a State divided by internal feuds and torn by faction fighting can not hold its own against a united people . We know that in a cricket or football team , a regiment , a ship's ...
... stand ; we believe that it shall fall se se We know that a State divided by internal feuds and torn by faction fighting can not hold its own against a united people . We know that in a cricket or football team , a regiment , a ship's ...
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... stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some ... stand these final shapes of the powerful , the perfect and the sublime - the aggregations of long ages of thought ...
... stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some ... stand these final shapes of the powerful , the perfect and the sublime - the aggregations of long ages of thought ...
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Abraham Lincoln battle of Waterloo beauty become believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight discommend divine dream earth Edgar Lee Masters eternal evil eyes face fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers friends genius George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner Jungfrau labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord Lord Byron mankind Marsouins matter means mind moral nation nature never night ourselves pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Rembrandt remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars Stevenson Superman sweet tears tell things thou thought thousand tree true truth virtue Vitellius whole wish words youth