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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... thatI wished to capture it, it lost itshead completely; it bounded furiously against the glass panes, as though it would smash them, took afresh start, and dashed itself again and againagainst theglass. Finallyit flew the whole length ...
... thatI wished to capture it, it lost itshead completely; it bounded furiously against the glass panes, as though it would smash them, took afresh start, and dashed itself again and againagainst theglass. Finallyit flew the whole length ...
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... can we learn anything about it. This involves. TO. make my readers realize what a philosopher is, I can only say thatI am a philosopher. If you ask incredulously, “How, then, is nothing an active life, not a contemplative one; for, unless ...
... can we learn anything about it. This involves. TO. make my readers realize what a philosopher is, I can only say thatI am a philosopher. If you ask incredulously, “How, then, is nothing an active life, not a contemplative one; for, unless ...
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... thatI always plucked a thistle and planted aflower where I thoughta flower would grow.—Abraham Lincoln. T. It's a boomerang to you. “The Boomerang,” by Capt. Jack Crawford DUCATION does not mean teaching people what they do not HAT we ...
... thatI always plucked a thistle and planted aflower where I thoughta flower would grow.—Abraham Lincoln. T. It's a boomerang to you. “The Boomerang,” by Capt. Jack Crawford DUCATION does not mean teaching people what they do not HAT we ...
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