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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... hour at a time ; yet in many diligent half - hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy . Green , the historian , tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes , but also by the aggregate of the tiny ...
... hour for many strange effects in light and shade enough to make a colorist go delirious - long spokes of molten silver sent horizontally through the trees ( now in their brightest , tenderest green ) , each leaf and branch of endless ...
... hour when ye say : " What good is my reason ! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food ? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self - compla- cency ! " se The hour when ye say : " What good is my virtue ! As yet it hath ...