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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... soul may sail even unto our thoughts . Above all is there the wonderful , central channel of love . For is it not in love that are found the purest elements of beauty that we can offer to the soul ? Some there are who do thus in beauty ...
... soul with soul , and all with the Infinite Harmony . - John S. Dwight . AUGHTER , while it lasts , slackens and unbraces the mind , weakens the faculties , and causes a kind of remiss- ness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul ...
... SOUL stood on the bank of the River of Life , and it had to cross it . And first it found a reed , and it tried to cross with it . But the reed ran into its hand at the top in fine splinters and bent when it leaned on it . Then the soul ...