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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... body , " It is nothing ! " - Olive Schreiner . CON 30 30 ONSCIENTIOUSNESS has in many outgrown that stage in which the sense of a compelling power is joined with rectitude of action . The truly honest man , here and there to be found ...
... body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall . - Emerson . Truth is such a precious article let us all economize in its use . - Mark Twain . 10 10 IT is great , and there is no other greatness - to make one nook of God's creation ...
... body of death , stagnating , depressing , retarding every effort to advance the body politic . The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly , and that progress in the ...