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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... Perhaps they are striking for more pay or recog- nition or closed shops . But the next strike ' ll be just like ours . It ' ll be people fighting so they won't be so much slaves like they was before . " The Chairman said perhaps I'd ...
... perhaps expresses , certainly awakes , those grandest and subtlest element- emotions in the human soul , that all marble temples and sculptures from Phidias to Thorwaldsen - all paintings , poems , reminiscences or even music- probably ...
... perhaps you are indebted to her originally , that is , to your religious education , for the habits of virtue upon which you now justly value yourself . You might easily display your excellent talents of reasoning upon a less hazardous ...