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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... beauty that turns into love is undistinguishable from the love that turns into beauty . It means to be able no longer to tell where the ray of a star leaves off and the kiss of an ordinary thought begins . It means that each day will ...
... beauty . The universe is its temple ; and those men who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encom- passed with it on every side . Now , this beauty is so precious , the enjoyment it gives so refined and ...
... beauty in the schoolroom , in the home , in the daily life and out of doors . I believe in laughing , in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on . I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just re- ward for all we do . I ...