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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... cause I do not fulfil them : but at the same time I say - not in justification , but in explanation , of my inconsistency- " Compare my previous life with the life I am now living , and you will see that I am trying to fulfil . I have ...
... causes that have been lost and won , the victories and defeats , the Reformation and the Re- naissance , all the great ... cause of the larger army was nowhere better disproved than in his own history . A handful of colo- nial farmers is ...
... cause the disunion , hatred and suffer- ing which poor de- luded followers and disciples have expe- rienced , how these good or well - inten- tioned persons would have lament- ed that they had ever lived to im- plant such dead- ly ...