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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... peace . -Jean Leon Jaurès . JOIN with you most cordially in rejoicing at the return of peace . I hope it will be lasting , and that man- kind will at length , as they call them- selves reasonable creatures , have reason enough to settle ...
... peace of mind . -John Lubbock . ELODY has by Beethoven been IT is indisputably evident that a Treat t freed from the influence of Fashion and changing Taste , and raised to an ever - valid , purely human type . Beetho- ven's music will ...
... peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain- worn dwellers in close and noisy places , and carry their own ... peaceful country scenes call up are not of this world or ot its thoughts and hopes . Their gentle influence may teach us to ...