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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Elbert Hubbard. GE , that lessens the enjoy- ment of life , increases our desire of living . Those dan- THAT if I differ from some in relig- ious apprehensions ? Am I therefore incompatible with human societies ? I know not any unfit for ...
... ment . But that jealousy , to be useful , must be impartial . - George Washington . 90 300 THINK it rather fine , this ne- I cessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done . I rather like it myself . I ...
... ment , carelessly , And ne ' er prefer his injuries to his heart , To bring it into danger . - Shakespeare . Make yourself an honest man , and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world . - Carlyle . But he had noth ...