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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... Nature at all . But to the eyes of the man of imagina- tion Nature is Imagination itself . As a man is , so he sees . - William Blake . " Caliban in the Coal Mines , " by Louis Untermeyer that , long after he is dead and forgotten , men ...
... Nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure . Man takes root at his feet , and at best he is no more than EVERY VERY time that we allow our- selves to be penetrated by Nature , our soul is opened to the most touching ...
... natural consequences of actions ; or , in other words , by the laws of the nature of man . To every one of us the world was once as fresh and new as to Adam . And then , long before we were susceptible of any other mode of instruction , ...