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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... labor as here assumed . . . . Labor is prior to and independent of capital . Capital is only the fruit of labor , could never have existed if labor had not first existed . Labor is the superior of capital , and deserves much the higher ...
... labor of love ; but we have come to think of what we call labor with almost a sense of pain . Most of us resolve our work into labor and , while it results in accomplishment , it becomes unpleasant and strenuous in the method of its ...
... labor . You hear every day greater numbers of foolish people speaking about liberty , as if it were such an honorable thing : so far from being that , it is , on the whole , and in the broadest sense , dis- honorable , and an attribute ...