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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... means - either will do- the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself , and do that which happens to be the easiest . If you are idle or sick or poor , however hard it may be to diminish your wants , it will be ...
... means that the beauty that turns into love is undistinguishable from the love that turns into beauty . It means to be able no longer to tell where the ray of a star leaves off and the kiss of an ordinary thought begins . It means that ...
... means joy , and pleasure , and satisfaction to your workers ; it means life , real , virile ; it means spontaneous bed- rock results - the vital things that pay dividends . - Henry Chester . are born to do that work ; the wellbred are ...