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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... speak , brave Adm'r'l ; speak and say ". NTHUSIASM is the greatest asset in the world . It beats money and power and influence . Single - handed the enthusiast convinces and dominates where the wealth accumulated by a small army of ...
... speak truth - one to speak and another to hear . " He must be very little experienced , or have no great zeal for truth , who does not recog . nize the fact . A grain of anger or a grain of suspicion produces strange acoustical effects ...
... speak our minds freely . This gives us great joy ; for we now consider that we stand upright.be- fore you and can speak what we think . All have heard your voice and all speak to you now as one man . Our minds are agreed s Brother , you ...