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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... things are con- structed , what he wants is money- more money than he has in his pockets | But after all , money can buy only a few things Why should any one envy the cap- tains of industry ? Their lives are made up of those vast ...
... things , but at things as they really are ; if we avail ourselves of the manifold blessings which surround us , we can not but feel that life is indeed a glorious inheritance . - John Lubbock . HE passions are the only orators that ...
... things which differ , and the difference of things which are alike . -Madame De Stael . Our whole social life is in essence but a long , slow striving for the victory of justice over force . - John Galsworthy . There would be no ...