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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... success , their mastery over mat- ter , and it is by discovering other men's souls , and After passing of a cloud , When a fit of laughter gits ye And ye'r spine is feelin ' proud , Don't forget to up and fling it At a soul that's ...
... success depend upon utilizing the odds and ends , the so - called " by - products . " The by - product is something apart from the main article manufactured , and yet something that has an actual value of its own . For instance , in the ...
... success in that work ; not for the money reward , for the time spent , or for the skill exercised , but for the successful result in the accomplish- ment of the work itself . -Sidney A. Weltmer . Every man's life is a fairy - tale ...