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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... live - every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt , While his friends met his conduct with doubt And the world with contempt . Was it thus that he plodded ahead , Never turning aside ? Then we'll talk of the life that he lived ...
... live the lives which they lived , endure what they endured , and partake in the rewards which they enjoyed . - Daniel Webster . O achieve what the world calls success a man must attend strictly to business and keep a little in advance ...
... live as long as Agamem- non Who knows whether the best of men be known , or whether there be not more remark- able persons for- got , than any that stand remembered in the known ac- count of Time ? ... Oblivion is not to be hired ; the ...