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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... force which the ordinary man is quite unable to resist . Perhaps only an expert can thoroughly appreciate the power with which a story well told , or an assertion well made , takes pos- session of a mind not specially trained to ...
... force received in some brain ; but where these demands arise above mediocrity it as- will hear , worth preserving ... forces forming a new style , not that soul can guess as ethics . Teach them both , but many serve as the body and soul ...
... force in today to rival or re - create that beautiful yesterday We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we had bread and shelter and organs , nor believe that the spirit can feed , cover , and I went to the dances at ...