ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own UsePelican Publishing Company, 1999 M11 30 - 240 pages No 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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... Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect from it, and dream upon it: until it becomes ...
... Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect from it, and dream upon it: until it becomes ...
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... man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, they took and killed him. But later they saw that the magic was in the words, not in the man. THERE. is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first ...
... man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, they took and killed him. But later they saw that the magic was in the words, not in the man. THERE. is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first ...
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... man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are by some freak of nature inverted,so that not only are love, pity, and honor loathsome tohim, and the affectation of them which society imposes onhim a constant source of ...
... man whose terrible secret is thathis fundamental impulses are by some freak of nature inverted,so that not only are love, pity, and honor loathsome tohim, and the affectation of them which society imposes onhim a constant source of ...
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... man, stopped me. Swollen, tearful eyes, blue lips, bristling rags, unclean sores. . . .. Oh, how horribly had poverty gnawed that unhappy being! He stretched out to me a red, bloated, dirty hand. . .He moaned, he bellowed for help. I ...
... man, stopped me. Swollen, tearful eyes, blue lips, bristling rags, unclean sores. . . .. Oh, how horribly had poverty gnawed that unhappy being! He stretched out to me a red, bloated, dirty hand. . .He moaned, he bellowed for help. I ...
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... man, what can he not learn!—Maxim Gorky. WO contrary laws stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor ...
... man, what can he not learn!—Maxim Gorky. WO contrary laws stand today opposed: one a law of blood and death, which, inventing daily newmeans of combat, obliges the nations tobe everprepared for battle; the othera lawof peace, of labor ...
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