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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... humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories. The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of ...
... humanity. The one would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual; the other places a single human life above all victories. The law of which we are the instruments essays even in the midst of ...
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... human 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 ...
... human 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 ...
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... human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls; by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization, torn from their homes and besotted by discipline, to ...
... human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls; by the fears inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization, torn from their homes and besotted by discipline, to ...
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... human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. Holmes. E. HE millionaire is a new kind of man—many of them. It is XCEPT a living man there is nothing more ...
... human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.—O. W. Holmes. E. HE millionaire is a new kind of man—many of them. It is XCEPT a living man there is nothing more ...
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... human nature rightly, a man may sometimes have a very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.— BulwerLytton. GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything ...
... human nature rightly, a man may sometimes have a very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.— BulwerLytton. GREAT deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything ...
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