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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... fear of an after- All these I hate - war and its panoply , The lie that hides its ghastly mockery , That makes its glories out of women's tears , The toil of peasants through the burdened years , Use them , and you may find what many of ...
... fear he inspired was caused only by the singular effect of his personality upon almost every one who had inter- course with him . I had seen men worthy of high respect ; I had also seen ferocious men : there was nothing in the ...
... fear of wicked men and had come here to enjoy their religion . They asked for a small seats We took pity on them , granted their request , and they sat down among us . We gave them corn and meat ; they gave us poison in return 0 The ...