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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... land unto a good land and a large , unto a land flowing with milk and honey . ' " HERE are two ways of being happy : We may either diminish our wants or augment our means - either will do- the result is the same ; and it is for each man ...
... Land - the Land of Ca- naan itself to which the Children of Israel were brought up from Egypt , what is it now ? A land overflowing with milk and honey ? Today it has neither milk nor honey . It is a barren waste of desert , peopled by ...
... land - animal . A land - animal can not live without land . All that man produces comes from the land ; all productive labor , in the final analysis , con- sists in working up land , or materials drawn from land , into such forms as fit ...