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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... side ofdecency, justice and fair dealing. In short,in life, as in a footballgame, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.—“The American Boy,” by Theodore Roosevelt. WHAT. we have ...
... side ofdecency, justice and fair dealing. In short,in life, as in a footballgame, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.—“The American Boy,” by Theodore Roosevelt. WHAT. we have ...
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... side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.—Plato. LOVE children. They not prattle of yesterday: areall do their interests of today and the tomorrows—I love ...
... side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.—Plato. LOVE children. They not prattle of yesterday: areall do their interests of today and the tomorrows—I love ...
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... side are vast pinnacles of sculptured rock. There, where the rock opens for the river, its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet, between the Upper and Lower Falls, to less than one hundred feet where it takes the ...
... side are vast pinnacles of sculptured rock. There, where the rock opens for the river, its waters are compressed from a width of two hundred feet, between the Upper and Lower Falls, to less than one hundred feet where it takes the ...
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... to this jutting rock, the fallsare already amid the canyon gloom These rocky sides are almost have. many hundred feet below you. The falls unroll their whiteness down They will march, freeze, hunger, suffer sickness, and die from.
... to this jutting rock, the fallsare already amid the canyon gloom These rocky sides are almost have. many hundred feet below you. The falls unroll their whiteness down They will march, freeze, hunger, suffer sickness, and die from.
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... sides are almost have perpendicular; indeed, in many places the boiling springs gouged themoutso asto leave overhanging cliffs and tablesat thetop. Take astone and throw it over;youhave to wait long before you hearit strike. Nothing ...
... sides are almost have perpendicular; indeed, in many places the boiling springs gouged themoutso asto leave overhanging cliffs and tablesat thetop. Take astone and throw it over;youhave to wait long before you hearit strike. Nothing ...
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