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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... accuse His Providence. We do not comprehend that in punishing us, in overturning our plans and causing us suffering, He is doing all this to deliver us, to open the Infinite to us.—Victor Hugo. I T is not possible to have the true pictures.
... accuse His Providence. We do not comprehend that in punishing us, in overturning our plans and causing us suffering, He is doing all this to deliver us, to open the Infinite to us.—Victor Hugo. I T is not possible to have the true pictures.
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... true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , Cæsar , no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth . But the images of men's ...
... true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , Cæsar , no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth . But the images of men's ...
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... true villain — the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them which society imposes ...
... true villain — the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them which society imposes ...
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... true orator who is not also a hero . - John P. Altgeld . Do of the many- O one has success until he has the abounding life . This is made up fold activity of energy , enthusiasm and gladness . It is to spring to meet the day with a ...
... true orator who is not also a hero . - John P. Altgeld . Do of the many- O one has success until he has the abounding life . This is made up fold activity of energy , enthusiasm and gladness . It is to spring to meet the day with a ...
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... true , all right . But you see , my girl— there must be some one to be good . We must have pity on mankind . Christ , remember , had pity for us all and so taught us . Have pity when there is still time , believe me , that is right . I ...
... true , all right . But you see , my girl— there must be some one to be good . We must have pity on mankind . Christ , remember , had pity for us all and so taught us . Have pity when there is still time , believe me , that is right . I ...
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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