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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... thou my good.”Heonly does wrongas a means to anend, which he always represents to himself as aright end. The case is exactly reversed withavillain; andit is my melancholy duty to add thatwe sometimes find it hard to avoid a cynical ...
... thou my good.”Heonly does wrongas a means to anend, which he always represents to himself as aright end. The case is exactly reversed withavillain; andit is my melancholy duty to add thatwe sometimes find it hard to avoid a cynical ...
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... thou hast many infamies, But not an infamy like this. O, snap the fife and still the drum, And show the monster as she is. “The Illusions of War,” by Richard Le Gallienne WAS passing along the street when a beggar, a decrepit old man ...
... thou hast many infamies, But not an infamy like this. O, snap the fife and still the drum, And show the monster as she is. “The Illusions of War,” by Richard Le Gallienne WAS passing along the street when a beggar, a decrepit old man ...
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... thou to tell? Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply: “Dense clouds veil the earth . . . Wait!” More thousands of years elapse, as it ...
... thou to tell? Thou canst see better.—What isgoing onthere below?” Several thousand yearspass by like one minute. And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply: “Dense clouds veil the earth . . . Wait!” More thousands of years elapse, as it ...
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... thou and I have chattered enough, old fellow. It is time tosleep.” “It is time!” The huge mountains slumber; the green, clear heaven slumbers over the earth whichhas grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet ...
... thou and I have chattered enough, old fellow. It is time tosleep.” “It is time!” The huge mountains slumber; the green, clear heaven slumbers over the earth whichhas grown dumb forever.—“A Conversation,” based on the fact that never yet ...
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... Thou washest my heart cleanas the Priest's. Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well, that I also may bea devout craftsman Thou teachest me subtle ways to resist despair, to master my passions, to heal unworthy weakness; the ...
... Thou washest my heart cleanas the Priest's. Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well, that I also may bea devout craftsman Thou teachest me subtle ways to resist despair, to master my passions, to heal unworthy weakness; the ...
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