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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later years; for the originals can not last, andthe copies not but leese of the life and truth. But the images ofmen's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted fromthe wrong of time, and capableof perpetual renovation Neither are ...
later years; for the originals can not last, andthe copies not but leese of the life and truth. But the images ofmen's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted fromthe wrong of time, and capableof perpetual renovation Neither are ...
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But the obvious golden truth isthat cooperation is good and competition bad, andthat society flourishesbythe mutual aid of humanbeings. I say that is obvious, andso it is. Anditis so well known thatin all great military or commercial ...
But the obvious golden truth isthat cooperation is good and competition bad, andthat society flourishesbythe mutual aid of humanbeings. I say that is obvious, andso it is. Anditis so well known thatin all great military or commercial ...
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Allgreat truths are persistent. Each form of right is a growing form. All high ideals will be realized. This one perceives whotakes along view—the triumph of ideality over apathy, indolence and dust. Thereis nothing in history, ...
Allgreat truths are persistent. Each form of right is a growing form. All high ideals will be realized. This one perceives whotakes along view—the triumph of ideality over apathy, indolence and dust. Thereis nothing in history, ...
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... reveals it only by such obscure manifestations as the shrinking ofthe Sensitive Plant, the sudden claspoftheDionea, or still more slightly, by the phenomena of the cyclosis.—Huxley. ALL truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and.
... reveals it only by such obscure manifestations as the shrinking ofthe Sensitive Plant, the sudden claspoftheDionea, or still more slightly, by the phenomena of the cyclosis.—Huxley. ALL truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and.
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truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is eithera coward or a criminal, or both.—Max Müller. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
truth is safe and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is eithera coward or a criminal, or both.—Max Müller. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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