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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... things are as obvious as the fact that there could be no hive unless the bees worked as a colony and on the lines of mutual aid.—Robert Blatchford. Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.—Frank Crane. There is something ...
... things are as obvious as the fact that there could be no hive unless the bees worked as a colony and on the lines of mutual aid.—Robert Blatchford. Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.—Frank Crane. There is something ...
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... things are constructed, what he wantsis money—more money thanhe has in his pocket But afterall, money can buy only a few things Why should any one envy the captains of industry? Their lives are made upof those vast, incessant worries ...
... things are constructed, what he wantsis money—more money thanhe has in his pocket But afterall, money can buy only a few things Why should any one envy the captains of industry? Their lives are made upof those vast, incessant worries ...
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... things, the most shameful and vile.—Plato. HEonly way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is the encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instil readymade opinions into his head.—Sir ...
... things, the most shameful and vile.—Plato. HEonly way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is the encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instil readymade opinions into his head.—Sir ...
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... things, and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine.—Friedrich Froebel. BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage; agood man—troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed ...
... things, and yet we neglect as unworthy of notice those human relations which are a key to the divine.—Friedrich Froebel. BAD man is wretched amidst every earthly advantage; agood man—troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed ...
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... things that we want but do not need; we do not refer to the desires that turn to Dead Sea fruit onour lips or to ashes when eaten,but to the legitimate desires of the soul for the realization of those ideals, the longingfor full ...
... things that we want but do not need; we do not refer to the desires that turn to Dead Sea fruit onour lips or to ashes when eaten,but to the legitimate desires of the soul for the realization of those ideals, the longingfor full ...
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