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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... laws of the nature of man . To every one of us the world was once as fresh and new as to Adam . And then , long before we were susceptible of any other mode of instruction , Nature took us in hand , and every minute of waking life ...
... laws . The bill passed this house , but was rejected by the Lords for this reason : " It was an innovation , they said , and sub- versive of law . " The very reverse is truth These hanging laws are themselves in- novations . No less ...
... laws you accept , the fewer penalties you will have to endure , and the fewer punishments to enforce . For wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains , but chain mail - strength and defense , though something also of ...