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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... whole winter. One of them, Stephen byname, liked to taketherifle and go into the woods. And the other,Jakoff, was constantly ill, always coughing. The three of us watched the place, and when spring came,. LUKA:—Treat. every one with ...
... whole winter. One of them, Stephen byname, liked to taketherifle and go into the woods. And the other,Jakoff, was constantly ill, always coughing. The three of us watched the place, and when spring came,. LUKA:—Treat. every one with ...
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... whole world than the contempt of his wife; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to the face of a child.—“A Man's Real Measure,” by W. C. Brann. THE. place to take the true measure of a man is not in the darkest ...
... whole world than the contempt of his wife; who would rather call anger to the eyes of a king than fear to the face of a child.—“A Man's Real Measure,” by W. C. Brann. THE. place to take the true measure of a man is not in the darkest ...
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... whole planet at once.They have not had time tolose their souls. There is a sensein which they might be called The Innocents of Riches—some of them.—Gerald Stanley Lee. T. M. EN are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South ...
... whole planet at once.They have not had time tolose their souls. There is a sensein which they might be called The Innocents of Riches—some of them.—Gerald Stanley Lee. T. M. EN are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South ...
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... whole great body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.—Sir Thomas Overbury. MAN without mirthislike a wagon without ...
... whole great body politic.—Woodrow Wilson. HE man who has not anything to boast illustrious ofbut his ancestorsislikea potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.—Sir Thomas Overbury. MAN without mirthislike a wagon without ...
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... whole heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not havea thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on ...
... whole heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not havea thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on ...
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