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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... face of a child.- " A Man's Real Measure , " by W. C. Brann . HE present position which we , the educated and well ... face and howls hallelujah until he shakes the eternal hills . But if his chil- dren rush to the front door to meet him ...
... face to face with the real thing ! The HE difference between a precious stone and a com- mon stone is not an essential difference - not a difference of substance , but of arrange- ment of the particles - the crystalliza- tion . In ...
... face , and felt that his will made them irresistible . After the great victory of Blenheim , the enthusiasm of the ... face- to - face knowledge has reality . It alone can get life in motion , since it springs from life . - Fichte . HE ...