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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... Thought. To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him, and through forests and swamps of contemporary writing. For him itwas the quest that mattered, it was the questhe loved The Reader will remember Keats' dream of “a very ...
... Thought. To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him, and through forests and swamps of contemporary writing. For him itwas the quest that mattered, it was the questhe loved The Reader will remember Keats' dream of “a very ...
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... thought andlove; the menwho inventedthe looms and spindles that clothe the world, the inventors of printing and the ... thoughts have charmed the soul, the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak, the marble live; the ...
... thought andlove; the menwho inventedthe looms and spindles that clothe the world, the inventors of printing and the ... thoughts have charmed the soul, the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak, the marble live; the ...
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... thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever ...
... thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a better success in my role before the ever ...
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... 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. They lost their strike. They went ...
... 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. They lost their strike. They went ...
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