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, Thefriends Iseek are seeking me; No windcan drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone? I wait ...
... stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, Thefriends Iseek are seeking me; No windcan drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone? I wait ...
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... stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor, of salvation, which strives to deliver man from the ...
... stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor, of salvation, which strives to deliver man from the ...
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... 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 great change which all of us ...
... 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 great change which all of us ...
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... stand; we believe that it shall fall 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 acricket or football team, a regiment, a ship's crew, a ...
... stand; we believe that it shall fall 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 acricket or football team, a regiment, a ship's crew, a ...
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... stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless ... stand these final shapes of the powerful, the perfect and the sublime—the aggregations of long ages of thought and ...
... stands before usin our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero, or Burke, or Webster, but always some nameless ... stand these final shapes of the powerful, the perfect and the sublime—the aggregations of long ages of thought and ...
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