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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... liberty . Between these two ways of it , at least , the reader will probably not fail to find a third definition of his own , and it follows , on one or other , that a man may pay too dearly for his livelihood by giving in Thoreau's ...
... 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 of the lower creatures . No human being , however great or powerful , was ...
... liberty . thou art- See , in France , all intellectual vigor dying under the tyranny of the seventeenth cen- tury to revive in splendor as Liberty awoke in the eight- eenth , and on the enfranchisement thought . Liberty dawned on ...