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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... words “became alive and walked upand down in the hearts of all his hearers.” Thereupon, thetribe seeing that the words were certainly alive,and fearinglest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children ...
... words “became alive and walked upand down in the hearts of all his hearers.” Thereupon, thetribe seeing that the words were certainly alive,and fearinglest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children ...
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... word to say, Some kindly deed to do; for loving thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a ...
... word to say, Some kindly deed to do; for loving thought Was warpand woof of which his lifewas wrought. He is not dead. Such souls forever live In boundless measure of the love they give. “Mystery,” by Jerome B. Bell Make me to achieve a ...
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... words of the story, but God said: 'Moses, you're a Jew. You ain't got no. LOOKING. more and more like an orchid, Yetta stood the real one, thebloodmounting to her cheeks, and waited for said when the business with the Egyptians. Take off ...
... words of the story, but God said: 'Moses, you're a Jew. You ain't got no. LOOKING. more and more like an orchid, Yetta stood the real one, thebloodmounting to her cheeks, and waited for said when the business with the Egyptians. Take off ...
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... words were unintelligible to most of the audience. Some of the Jewish vestmakers understood. And the Rev. Dunham Denning, who was a famous scholar, understood. But even those who did not were held spellbound by the swinging sonorous ...
... words were unintelligible to most of the audience. Some of the Jewish vestmakers understood. And the Rev. Dunham Denning, who was a famous scholar, understood. But even those who did not were held spellbound by the swinging sonorous ...
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... words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.— Samuel Johnson. There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa. For each and every joyful thing, For twilight swallows on the ...
... words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.— Samuel Johnson. There exists no cure for a heart wounded with the sword of separation.—Hitopadesa. For each and every joyful thing, For twilight swallows on the ...
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