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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... the affliction of my peoplewhich are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for Iknow their sorrows; “ 'And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the A T Egyptians and to bring them up out of.
... the affliction of my peoplewhich are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for Iknow their sorrows; “ 'And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the A T Egyptians and to bring them up out of.
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... come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief inJack the GiantKiller I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore.I am glad that children should amuse themselves with nursery stories, but it is ...
... come to my moral nature from disbelief in Samson than from disbelief inJack the GiantKiller I care as little for Goliath as for the giant Blunderbore.I am glad that children should amuse themselves with nursery stories, but it is ...
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... come from the seats of learning. It comes in a murmur from the hills and woods and farmsand factories and the mills, rolling and gaining volume until it comes to us from the homes of common men. Do these murmurs echo in the corridors of ...
... come from the seats of learning. It comes in a murmur from the hills and woods and farmsand factories and the mills, rolling and gaining volume until it comes to us from the homes of common men. Do these murmurs echo in the corridors of ...
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... come among us again the chosen—who shall continue what has gone before. Satisfied that, even were he never to appear, the story of the beautiful is already complete—hewn in the marbles of the Parthenon—and broidered, with the birds ...
... come among us again the chosen—who shall continue what has gone before. Satisfied that, even were he never to appear, the story of the beautiful is already complete—hewn in the marbles of the Parthenon—and broidered, with the birds ...
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