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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... nature he would inflict on his fellow men but dares not. I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife; who ...
... nature he would inflict on his fellow men but dares not. I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather make men swear than women weep; who would rather have the hate of the whole world than the contempt of his wife; who ...
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... 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 which ...
... 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 which ...
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... 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 shocking that they ...
... 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 shocking that they ...
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... nature is capable?Why, living ona farm which is one's own, far from the hectic, artificial conditions of the city—a farm where one gets directly from one's own soil what one needs to sustain life, with a garden in front and a healthy ...
... nature is capable?Why, living ona farm which is one's own, far from the hectic, artificial conditions of the city—a farm where one gets directly from one's own soil what one needs to sustain life, with a garden in front and a healthy ...
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... nature toward itsperfection, yet if mengave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, andso on in an eternal circle,itis easy to see that there could never be any improvement among them. Men must remain as brutes ...
... nature toward itsperfection, yet if mengave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, andso on in an eternal circle,itis easy to see that there could never be any improvement among them. Men must remain as brutes ...
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