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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... ofthe Shade, Andyet the menaceof the years Finds, and shallfind, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate ... of the beautiful — who perceived in Nature about him curious curvings, as faces are seen in the fire—this dreamer apart ...
... ofthe Shade, Andyet the menaceof the years Finds, and shallfind, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate ... of the beautiful — who perceived in Nature about him curious curvings, as faces are seen in the fire—this dreamer apart ...
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... of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.—William Blake. HE plant is an ... ofthe Sensitive Plant, the sudden claspoftheDionea, or still more slightly, by the phenomena of the cyclosis.—Huxley ...
... of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.—William Blake. HE plant is an ... ofthe Sensitive Plant, the sudden claspoftheDionea, or still more slightly, by the phenomena of the cyclosis.—Huxley ...
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... of the most stupendous scenes of Nature, the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon ofthe Yellowstone And now where shall I begin, and how shall I, in any wise, describe this tremendous sight; its overpowering grandeur, and at the same time ...
... of the most stupendous scenes of Nature, the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon ofthe Yellowstone And now where shall I begin, and how shall I, in any wise, describe this tremendous sight; its overpowering grandeur, and at the same time ...
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... of the frost, by file of snowplunge and glacier, and the mountaintorrents, by the hot breath of the balmy Spring ... ofthe sky and hung themselves there like glorious banners. The underlying color is the clearest yellow; this flushes ...
... of the frost, by file of snowplunge and glacier, and the mountaintorrents, by the hot breath of the balmy Spring ... ofthe sky and hung themselves there like glorious banners. The underlying color is the clearest yellow; this flushes ...
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