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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... things had come in through the open window. Whenthe windows were closed they found themselves prisoners. Unable to see the transparent obstacle, they had hurled themselves against the glass paneson all sides, east, north, south and west ...
... things had come in through the open window. Whenthe windows were closed they found themselves prisoners. Unable to see the transparent obstacle, they had hurled themselves against the glass paneson all sides, east, north, south and west ...
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... things! So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings, a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf, warm perfectionin every stirring egg, hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows ...
... things! So each spring sees a million glorious beginnings, a sunlit heaven in every opening leaf, warm perfectionin every stirring egg, hope and fearand beauty beyond computation in every forest tree;and in the autumnbefore the snows ...
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... Things have become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us ...
... Things have become clearer down below; the waters have contracted; the forests have grown thinner.” More thousands of years pass, as it were one minute. “What dost thou see?” says the Jungfrau “Things seem tohave grown clearer round us ...
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... things offer nothing that is worthy of ahigh ambition. Enjoyed to their fullest, they leave you hard, wrinkled and miserable. Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan ...
... things offer nothing that is worthy of ahigh ambition. Enjoyed to their fullest, they leave you hard, wrinkled and miserable. Getall they can give and the hand will beempty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled Oratory isan ...
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... 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 Mosesand his people inEgypt. He'd been brought up bya rich Egyptian lady—a princess ...
... 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 Mosesand his people inEgypt. He'd been brought up bya rich Egyptian lady—a princess ...
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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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