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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... less to me ; prayers mean less ; potions , pills and drugs mean less ; but peace , friendship , love and a life of usefulness mean more , infinitely more . -Silas Hubbard , M. D. IVE IVE us , O give us the man who sings at his work ! Be ...
... less men , which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times , unto which they know they must transmit their dearest ...
... less forlorn ; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed -William Wordsworth horn . love for me . The first of July , 1514 , Your Raffael , painter in Rome . Hubbard's Note : -Raphael's love for ...