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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... reason , but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy . -Thomas De Quincey . E who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can pos- sibly ...
... REASON , murder , rape , and burning a dwelling house , were all the crimes that were liable to be punished with death by our good old com- mon law . And such was the tenderness , such the reluctance to shed blood , that if recompense ...
... reason pro equal to some two reasons con , I strike out the three . If I judge some two reasons con , equal to some three reasons pro , I strike out the five ; and thus proceeding I find at length where the balance lies ; and if , after ...