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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... religion . theology , just as God made the country and man the town . I have the largest sympathy for religion , and the largest contempt I am capable of for a mis- world . Never was a child made more noble and good by a fear of Hell s ...
... religion , what would they be if without it . I intend this letter itself as a proof of my friendship , and therefore add no professions to it ; but subscribe simply yours , B. Franklin . religion ; you having a clear perception of the ...
... religion , there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong ; but if they are to judge of each other's religion , there is no such thing as a religion that is right ; and therefore , all the world is right , or all the world is wrong ...