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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... pleasure and busi- ness , eaten dirt , and sown wild - oats , drifted about the world and taken the wind of all its moods . The love of digging in the ground ( or of look- ing on while he pays another to dig ) is as sure to come back to ...
... pleasure , assist us in acquiring knowledge , or in doing good to our fellow creatures , is a kind and benevo- lent act of God . When they become un- fit for these purposes , and afford us pain instead of pleasure , instead of an aid be ...
... pleasure of past years , Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears . Or hope again for aught that I can say , The idle singer of an empty day . T my first ball at Tortonia's , not knowing any lady , I was standing about , looking at ...