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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... moral element would be lacking ; the goodness would have no more significance in our conscious life than that load of atmosphere which we are always carrying about with us . moral value or significance of a race of human beings ignorant ...
... moral energy stronger than brute force . The whole of modern thought is steeped in science . It has made its way into the works of our best poets , and even the mere man of letters , who affects to ignore and despise science , is ...
... Moral , Aurelius , 118 . Pericles , Appreciation of , Saltus , 26 . Personality , Eliot , 42 . Philosophy : Shaw , 10 ; Moral , Franklin , 99 ; Fichte , 161 . Piano , The , Liszt , 226 . Pictures , Horace , 101 . Plants , Huxley , 25 ...