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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... desire , is our per- warmer hour : they fall , less content petual prayer which Nature answers . She takes it for granted that we desire what we are headed toward , and she helps us to it . People little realize that their desires are ...
... desire to do so . I might preach through my actions , but my actions are bad . That which I say is not preaching ; it is only my attempt to find out the meaning and the signifi- cance of life . People often say to me , " If you think ...
... desire and prize is not the Courage to die decently , but to live manfully . - Carlyle . ୪ Ho I am truly sensible of the high HO honor done me in this appointment , yet I feel great distress from a conscious- ness that my abilities and ...