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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... existence , be it only for an instant , to our own . And again , I doubt whether anything in the world can beautify a soul more spon- taneously , more naturally , than the knowledge that somewhere in its neigh- borhood exists a pure and ...
... existence . leading theology . Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion ; give them Nature . Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet . Rear them , if possible , amid pleasant surroundings . If ...
... existence se Whence , then , is this increased love of life , which grows upon us with our years ? Whence comes it that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our existence at a period when it be- comes scarce worth the keeping ? Is ...