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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... grow weaker , and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger . The struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe , and virtue will be triumphant . -Charles Darwin . H ! Unseen Power that rules and con ...
... growing out of ignorance and misunderstanding . It is not an exag- OU want a better position than you ου now have in ... grow up to the job - and when you are ready , after hard work , after perhaps years of preparation , you will get ...
... grow mad , and all grow bad , And none a word may say . Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine , And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen . And all , but Lust , is turned to dust In ...