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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... Follow some other object , and very pos- sibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it ; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves , " Here it is ! " like the chest of gold that treasure ...
... follow their advice . - Sydney Smith . E 90 90 Mengtsen , that when he was a are told of the Chinese sage child , his mother's home was near a slaughter - house , and that she instantly left her home when she saw the child watching with ...
... follow . May I reach That purest heaven ; be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony ; Enkindle ... follows from this analysis that the Correggiosity of Correggio , that which sharply distinguished him from all pre- vious ...