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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... idea which has been full grown for ten years , especially if it claims to be the foundation of all human society . I am prepared to back human society against any idea , positive or negative , that can be brought into the field against ...
... idea which comes to my mind . But whether this , in itself , has any excellence of art , I know not ; I shall do what I can to attain it . - Letter from Raphael to Count Castiglione . E know that a statement proved to thoughts are ...
... idea , as conceived by untaught thinkers in the twilight of antiquity , an element that still survives the widest and deepest generalizations of modern times , we OTHING is more unjust than to cast especial blame for. No religious creed ...