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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... seems , that he should have more sympathy with our envy and aversion to his happiness , than we have with his happiness . It is seldom that with all this he succeeds . We suspect the sincerity of his humility , and he grows weary of ...
... seem filled with the same desire ; what labor , what art and technique ; but what a dearth of feeling and spontaneity ... seems to me , works of art are not made to be judged , but to be loved , to please , to dissipate the cares of real ...
... seems to me as if we had none of us known him . How our admiring , lov- ing wonder has grown , day by day , as he has unfolded trait after trait of earnest , brave , tender , Chris- tian life ! We see him walking with radiant , serene ...