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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... Mind - will dispute the ground , until one is acknowledged to be the victor . Discussing his campaign , General Grant said : " I propose to fight it out on this line , if it takes all summer . " Science says : All is Mind and Mind's ...
... mind of man . They are true because they have been developed in accordance with the laws governing the evolution of truth in human history , and because in poem , chronicle , code , legend , myth , apologue or parable they reflect this ...
... Mind : The , Bourdillon , 39 ; Shakespeare , 128 ; Free- dom of , Longfellow , 25 ; Divine , Eddy , 177 . Minds , Great , Irving , 102 . Mining , Coal , Untermeyer , 25 . Mirth , Beecher , 21 . Misery , Untermeyer , 25 . Mockingbird ...