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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... live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In ravings of a maniac, but it is the calm geometry of life. Ideals try feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels ...
... live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In ravings of a maniac, but it is the calm geometry of life. Ideals try feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels ...
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... live, or lose and die. Until there was found among them one, differing from the rest, whose pursuits attracted him not, and so he staid by the tents with the women, and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd. This man ...
... live, or lose and die. Until there was found among them one, differing from the rest, whose pursuits attracted him not, and so he staid by the tents with the women, and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd. This man ...
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... live; it is asking others tolive as one wishes to live. And unselfishness isletting other people's lives alone, not interfering withthem. Selfishness always aims at creating around it anabsolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness ...
... live; it is asking others tolive as one wishes to live. And unselfishness isletting other people's lives alone, not interfering withthem. Selfishness always aims at creating around it anabsolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness ...
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... lives. Stitch—stitch—stitch In poverty, hunger, and dirt,— Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a Shirt! “But why do I talk of Death— That phantom of grisly bone! I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like ...
... lives. Stitch—stitch—stitch In poverty, hunger, and dirt,— Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a Shirt! “But why do I talk of Death— That phantom of grisly bone! I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like ...
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