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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... feel he was 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 ...
... feel- ing , as well as practically inconvenient . This is scarce- ly fair ; for the feeling on which it merely attends , like an ill - humored courtier , is self artificial in exactly the same sense and to the same degree . I suppose ...
... feel- ing of very marked fear . Bonaparte then had no power ; he was thought even to be more or less in danger from the vague suspiciousness of the Directory ; so that sions when I met him during his stay in Paris , that his character ...