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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... heart is beating! Can not an actor be God's man? Can notI, whose business it is to play, be as conscientious as those in authority or perilor solemn function? Convention classes me and my fellows among the loose and thoughtless. So ...
... heart is beating! Can not an actor be God's man? Can notI, whose business it is to play, be as conscientious as those in authority or perilor solemn function? Convention classes me and my fellows among the loose and thoughtless. So ...
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... heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. ... hearts to us as brothers.— Charles Kingsley. almost asifa new sort of human naturehad been produced— rolled and ...
... heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. ... hearts to us as brothers.— Charles Kingsley. almost asifa new sort of human naturehad been produced— rolled and ...
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... heart.— BulwerLytton. GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which he attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work—a work ...
... heart.— BulwerLytton. GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which he attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work—a work ...
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... heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa. For each and every joyful thing, For twilight swallows on the wing, For all that nest and all that sing,— For fountains cool that laugh and leap, For rivers runningtothe deep, For ...
... heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa. For each and every joyful thing, For twilight swallows on the wing, For all that nest and all that sing,— For fountains cool that laugh and leap, For rivers runningtothe deep, For ...
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... heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not havea thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on the side ...
... heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not havea thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on the side ...
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