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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... once in a lifetime " let out all the length of all the reins . " -Mary Cholmondeley . HAVE ever gained the most profit , and the most pleasure also , from the books which have made me think the most ; and , when the difficulties have once ...
... once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual good - will , which is a source of such pure and un- alloyed delight , and one so incompat- ible with the cares and sorrows of the world , that the religious belief of the most ...
... once quarreled carry themselves distantly , and are ever ready to break the truce . To speak truth there must be moral equality or else no respect ; and hence between parent and child inter- course is apt to degenerate into a verbal ...