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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... never seen - to dig by the divining - rod for springs which he may never reach . In saying this , I point to that which will make your study heroic . For I say to you in all sadness of conviction , that to think great thoughts you must ...
... never whines . One illustrated this to me by swinging a dog around by the tail . The creature was in pain , but no sound escaped him . " You see , " said the keeper , " they never complain . It ain't in ' em . Same Iway when a stable ...
... never saw , and never had a word of conversation with till the day they came to me , and that was for the purpose I have stated . Now , I have done . - John Brown's Ad- dress to the Court . I F you accept art , it must be part of your ...