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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... become that not only have we forgotten our dreams , but we have actually grown ashamed of them . Proverbially there is nothing of which an Englishman is so much ashamed as his emotions . To suspect him of sentiment is to imply insult ...
... become more and more living , loftier and loftier . - Maeterlinck . HERISH the spirit of our people and kings and queens of common clay . It is the perfume of the wondrous flower - the heart - and without that sacred passion , that ...
... become by degrees the perfumed flower . From the tiny , mottled egg come the wings that by and by shall pass the immense of sea . It is in this marvelous transformation of clods and cold matter into living things that the joy and the ...