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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... rest of the world ; your light every precious moment , and find an un- speakable facility in the performance of your respective duties . Begin and end the day with Him who is the Alpha and Omega , and if you really experience what it is ...
... rest . We know that through the common wants of life - the needs and duties of each hour - their griefs will lessen day by day , until at last this grave will be to them a place of rest and peace - almost of joy . There is for them this ...
... rest of their lives . Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever ? Can not students be boarded here and get a liberal education under the skies of Concord ? Can we not hire some Abelard to lecture to us ?. Alas ...