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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... Look there ! Look there ! It is he . The new patron saint of a Christian State ! Look there ! It is he , the great Genghis Khan . Of him we know that he swept through the history of the world with fire and sword , and piled up pyramids ...
... look had given place to one of sweet repose . It was the mystery of Death . Of course , this has its good side as well as its bad one . As we become per- manent drunkards by so many sep- arate drinks , so we become saints in the moral ...
... looks to his millrace ; the engineer replenishes his coalbin ; the sailor regards the quarter of the wind ; so must we people who have more impor- tant concerns on hand look for the carry- ing out of them to the strength and purity of ...