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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... provisionsfor his own refreshment and delectation To glanceat the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued thequest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopesof Thought.
... provisionsfor his own refreshment and delectation To glanceat the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued thequest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopesof Thought.
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... builtthe railways andcanals, the great ships, invented the locomotives and engines, supplying the countless wants ofcivilization; themen who invented thetelegraphs and cables, and freightedthe electric spark with thought andlove; ...
... builtthe railways andcanals, the great ships, invented the locomotives and engines, supplying the countless wants ofcivilization; themen who invented thetelegraphs and cables, and freightedthe electric spark with thought andlove; ...
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And smile on me as he did yesterday; And he will have some gentle word to say, Some kindly deed to do; for loving thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the ...
And smile on me as he did yesterday; And he will have some gentle word to say, Some kindly deed to do; for loving thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the ...
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“Perhaps there'ssome of you never thought much about strikes till now.Well. There's been strikes all thetime. Idon't believe there's ever beena year when there was n't dozens here inNew York. When we began, the skirtfinishers was out.
“Perhaps there'ssome of you never thought much about strikes till now.Well. There's been strikes all thetime. Idon't believe there's ever beena year when there was n't dozens here inNew York. When we began, the skirtfinishers was out.
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... the same thought, the same sympathy, that pulses through the whole great body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.
... the same thought, the same sympathy, that pulses through the whole great body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.
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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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