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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... believe in 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 ...
... believe the government of the United States to be at this moment the best in the world ; but then the Americans are the best people ; and we have a theory that the government of every State is always - excepting during the periods of ...
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omni- presence . We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or re - create that beautiful yesterday We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we had ...