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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We do not comprehend that in punishing us, in overturning our plans and causing us suffering, He is doing all this to deliver us, to open the Infinite to us.—Victor Hugo. later years; for the originals can not last, andthe copies.
We do not comprehend that in punishing us, in overturning our plans and causing us suffering, He is doing all this to deliver us, to open the Infinite to us.—Victor Hugo. later years; for the originals can not last, andthe copies.
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... servility, and cruel indifference to suffering in orderto enjoya miserable tuppence worth of social position, piety, comfort, and domestic affection, of which he, too, is often ironically defrauded by Fate.—George Bernard Shaw.
... servility, and cruel indifference to suffering in orderto enjoya miserable tuppence worth of social position, piety, comfort, and domestic affection, of which he, too, is often ironically defrauded by Fate.—George Bernard Shaw.
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One looks only for violent conquest; the other for the relief of suffering humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories ...
One looks only for violent conquest; the other for the relief of suffering humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories ...
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Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of ...
Is it to know that my security and that ofmy family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of ...
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But being in a strike, seeing all the people suffer, seeing all the cruelty—it makes things look different “The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible. Well, we Jews have got a story too—perhaps it's inyour Bible—about ...
But being in a strike, seeing all the people suffer, seeing all the cruelty—it makes things look different “The Chairman told you something out of the Christian Bible. Well, we Jews have got a story too—perhaps it's inyour Bible—about ...
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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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