Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookA vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. Here the words of history's and literature's greats from William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Charlotte Brontï¿1/2, and Dante to Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, and Oscar Wilde meet. Originally published posthumously as a tribute to Hubbard, this compilation includes the musings of George Washington on jealousy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on love, Plato on man, and hundreds of others. The universe's most momentous questions about life and success, as well as love, humanity, nature, and war, unfold in memorable passages. Indexes by author, topic, and poem serve for easy reference. |
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... Pontius Pilate ! " he cried . " The gods be praised who have permitted me to see you once again ! " The old man gave a signal to the slaves to stop , and cast a keen glance upon the stranger who had addressed him . " Pontius , my dear ...
... Pontius Pilate " Although you have lived amongst them , it seems clear that you ill understand those enemies of the human race . Haughty and at the same time base , combining an invincible ob- stinacy with a despicably mean spirit ...
... Pontius Pilate con- tinued as though he had not heard this interruption . . salem as an interested onlooker , and mingled freely with the people , and I succeeded in detecting certain obscure virtues in these rude folk which were ...