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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... matters of human action the too little and the too much are alike ruinous , as we can see ( to illustrate the ... matter has be- come a great nerve , vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time ? Rather , the round ...
... matter , but it is matter that can dispense with space . - Heinrich Heine . O renounce your individuality , to see with another's eyes , to hear with another's ears , to be two and yet but one , to so melt and mingle that you no longer ...
... matter . I heard a reader observe , after finishing one of Robert Louis Stevenson's books , complete identi- fication of the style with the thought ; the complete ab- sorption of the man with his matter , so that the reader shall say ...