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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... pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years elapse , as it were one minute . " Well , what now ? " inquires the Jungfrau . " Now I can see ; down ...
... pass from one man to another . The moment that we have something to say to each other , we are compelled to hold our peace : and if at such times we do not listen to the urgent commands of silence , invisible though they be , we shall ...
... pass freely in and out , out and in . Even the evil . Let it pass out and in , in and out . No man hates the truth . But most men are afraid of the truth . Make the truth easier than a lie . Make the truth welcomer than its counter ...