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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... hold over his hearers is not his cleverness , but himself - the fact that this savant who bears the heavy load of three cultures , nay , who is in himself a whole little culture - this sage , to whom the whole life of the earth is but ...
... holds the closest re- lation to the soil ; and he holds a clos- er and more vital relation to Nature because he is ... hold communion with the soul of Nature through sympa- thies that may be entirely unknown to us , because her methods ...
... hold or pretend to hold , and none make louder claim to hold them than the very sects which per- secuted these eminent Christian men of our day , whose crime was that they were intelligent enough to accept the science of their time ...