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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... hear every day greater numbers of foolish people speaking about liberty , as if it were such an honorable thing : so ... ( Hear ! Hear ! and repeated cries of Question ! ) I am not at all surprised , sir , at the reception I have met with ...
... hear it , and the cry comes down the wind , And their feet are marching on . Oye rich men , hear and tremble , for with words the sound is rife : " Once for you and death we labored : changed henceforward is the strife , We are men ...
... hear that one of their ser- vants does them honor , and recom- mend me to them as I continually stand recommend- ed to you . Salute all friends and rela- tives for meand par- ticularly Ridolfo , who has so much SEEM to know Cellini ...