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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... race can be made perfect without the virtues of every other , or without the universal fellowship of all the ... racial prejudice ! By our practice and our testimony , let us stand fearlessly and lovingly for the unity of mankind . I ...
... race of beings . Beneath the same sun that rolls over your head ; the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer ; gazing on the same moon that smiles for you , the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate . Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the ...
... race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem . It is at the bottom of life we must begin , and not at the top . In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the ...