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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... better position than you ου now have in business , a better and fuller place in life . All right ; think of that better place and you in it as already existing . Form the mental image . Keep on thinking of that higher position , keep ...
... better for me ; and there- fore the oracle gave no sign . For which reason , also , I am not angry with my condemners or with my accu- sers . They have done me no harm , al- though they did not mean to do me any good ; and for this I ...
... better , truer self , That sobbed religiously in yearning song , That watched to ease the burthen of the world , Laboriously tracing what must be , And what may yet be better - saw within A worthier image for the sanctuary , And shaped ...