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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... give him abundanceof good advice. Yes, we will do almost anything forthe poor man, anything but get off his back.—Leo Tolstoy. F you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of othersto pull you down. There is nothing in ...
... give him abundanceof good advice. Yes, we will do almost anything forthe poor man, anything but get off his back.—Leo Tolstoy. F you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of othersto pull you down. There is nothing in ...
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... give me money to study, she wants to have me go to college like I was a rich girl. It's very kind. I want to study. I ain't been to school none since I was fifteen. I guess I can't even talk English very good. I'd like to go to college ...
... give me money to study, she wants to have me go to college like I was a rich girl. It's very kind. I want to study. I ain't been to school none since I was fifteen. I guess I can't even talk English very good. I'd like to go to college ...
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... gives one general debility.— SaundersNorvell. CANno more understand that any serious injury can 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 ...
... gives one general debility.— SaundersNorvell. CANno more understand that any serious injury can 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 ...
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... give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen— but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the ...
... give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen— but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the ...
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... give when under pressure and control; formy imperfections that give me the keen delight of striving toward perfection. God of common good and human brotherhood, I give Thee thanks for siren songs of temptation that lure and entangle and ...
... give when under pressure and control; formy imperfections that give me the keen delight of striving toward perfection. God of common good and human brotherhood, I give Thee thanks for siren songs of temptation that lure and entangle and ...
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