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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... God, here in my dressing room, with the door shut, I am alone with Thee. am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by, here, as in every place where a human heart is beating! the loose and thoughtless. Can not an actor be God's ...
... God, here in my dressing room, with the door shut, I am alone with Thee. am glad I know the great spirit that stands silently by, here, as in every place where a human heart is beating! the loose and thoughtless. Can not an actor be God's ...
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... God spoke to him one day out of a bush on fire . I don't remember just the words of the story , but God said : ' Moses , you're a Jew . You ain't got no business with the Egyptians . Take off those fine clothes and go back to your own ...
... God spoke to him one day out of a bush on fire . I don't remember just the words of the story , but God said : ' Moses , you're a Jew . You ain't got no business with the Egyptians . Take off those fine clothes and go back to your own ...
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... God don't send any more prophets nowadays . We've got to escape all by ourselves . And when you read in the ... God's words to Moses , the Lawgiver , as recorded in the third chapter of Exodus . I think it's the seventh verse ...
... God don't send any more prophets nowadays . We've got to escape all by ourselves . And when you read in the ... God's words to Moses , the Lawgiver , as recorded in the third chapter of Exodus . I think it's the seventh verse ...
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... God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy . — Queen Victoria . S good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature , God's image , but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ...
... God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy . — Queen Victoria . S good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature , God's image , but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ...
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... God of commonsense, I give Thee thanks for the heavy blows of pain that drive me back from perilous ways into harmony with the laws of my being; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings and glorious ...
... God of commonsense, I give Thee thanks for the heavy blows of pain that drive me back from perilous ways into harmony with the laws of my being; for stinging whips of hunger and cold that urge to bitter strivings and glorious ...
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Abraham Lincoln battle of Waterloo beauty become believe blood Correggio dark dead death delight discommend divine dream earth Edgar Lee Masters eternal evil eyes face fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers friends genius George Eliot give glory grow hand happy head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner Jungfrau labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord Lord Byron mankind Marsouins matter means mind moral nation nature never night ourselves pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Rembrandt remember Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars Stevenson Superman sweet tears tell things thou thought thousand tree true truth virtue Vitellius whole wish words youth