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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... thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them were it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able to ...
... thousand good pictures every year , and form some sort of practical judgment about every one of them were it only that it is not worth troubling over - then at the end of five years or so you will , if you have a wise eye , be able to ...
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... thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau ...
... thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau ...
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... thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of carnage to heal the wounds caused by the law of ...
... thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual ; the other places a single human life above all victories . The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of carnage to heal the wounds caused by the law of ...
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... thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls ; by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization , torn from their homes and besotted by ...
... thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls ; by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization , torn from their homes and besotted by ...
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... thousand tribes . - O . W. Holmes . " The Boomerang , " by Capt . Jack Crawford. EXCEPT ' XCEPT a living man there is ... thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify ...
... thousand tribes . - O . W. Holmes . " The Boomerang , " by Capt . Jack Crawford. EXCEPT ' XCEPT a living man there is ... thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us , arouse us , terrify ...
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Abraham Lincoln battle of Waterloo beauty become believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight discommend divine dream earth Edgar Lee Masters eternal evil eyes face fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers friends genius George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner Jungfrau labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord Lord Byron mankind Marsouins matter means mind moral nation nature never night ourselves pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Rembrandt remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars Stevenson Superman sweet tears tell things thou thought thousand tree true truth virtue Vitellius whole wish words youth