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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... Thomas Paine ( From The Crisis ) Men and nations can only be reformed in their youth ; they become incorrigible as they grow old . - Rousseau . to depend on the result of a single examination , af- fected as that re- sult must ever in ...
... Thomas Paine . A politician thinks of the next election ; a statesman , of the next generation . -James Freeman Clarke . ITH respect to what are called denominations of re- ligion , if every one is left judge of his own religion , there ...
... Thomas Paine . EO - PLATONISM is a progressive philosophy , and does not expect to state final conditions to men whose minds are finite . Life is an unfoldment , and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend . To understand ...