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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... kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they ' d try to understand what this strike business means to all of us workers -this strike we ' ve won and the ones that are coming .... " I come out of the ...
... kind and benevo- lent act of God . When they become un- fit for these purposes , and afford us pain instead of pleasure , instead of an aid be- come an incumbrance , and answer none of the intentions for which they were given , it is ...
... kind . " If War Be Kind , " by Stephen Crane There is no tongue to speak his eulogy ; Too. THINK I knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly : and were I called on to delineate his character , it should be in terms like these ...