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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... sense of humanity . If you are to acquire the sense suffi- ciently to be a philosopher , you must do all these things unconditionally . You must not say that you will be a gentle- man and limit your intercourse to this class or that ...
... sense of humor and the power to laugh . A little leisure with nothing to do . A few moments of quiet , silent meditation . The sense of the presence of God se se And the patience to wait for the coming of these things , with the wisdom ...
... sense which must seem , I think , to you un- intelligible and overstrained . But there is a reason for it . Our poets and literary men have taught their successors , for long generations , to look for good not in wealth , not in power ...