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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... human brotherhood . Two ways lie open for you - one leading to an even lower and lower plain , where are heard the ... human society . I am prepared to back human society against any idea , positive or negative , that can be ...
... human miseries and wrongs , perhaps more shocking than the bad passions it calls forth . To my mind , this contempt of human nature is singularly offensive . To hate expresses something like respect . But in war , man treats his brother ...
... human heart grew faint . It is the same world , this in which we live ; the source of its power is still in the ... human sentiment . The causes that have been lost and won , the victories and defeats , the Reformation and the Re ...