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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... fact with the bright world of my imagining ? My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence , and , behold , the outer day - lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness . At first I was most un- happy ; but ...
... fact is , that civilization re- quires slaves . The Greeks were quite right there . Unless there are slaves to do the ugly , horrible , uninteresting work , culture and contemplation be- come almost impossible . Human slavery is wrong ...
... fact ; recent researches in the East are con- stantly increasing this value ; but it is not for this that we prize them most : they are eminently precious , not as a rec- ord of outward fact , but as a mirror of the evolving heart ...