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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... give when under pressure and control ; for my im- perfections that give me the keen delight of striving toward perfection . God of common good and human broth- erhood , I give Thee thanks for siren songs of temptation that lure and ...
... Give it ears . It will hear . Give it a right arm . It will act . Man needs time and room . Man needs soil , sunshine and rain . Needs a chance . Open all your doors and windows . Let everything pass freely in and out , out and in ...
... Give back the upward looking and the light ; Rebuild in it the music and the dream ; Make right the immemorial ... gives an artist power to express himself clearly . " He spoke in this manner for some time and then stopped , as if afraid ...