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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... thought ; the complete ab- sorption of the man with his matter , so that the reader shall say , " How good , how real , how true ! " - that is the great success . Seek ye the kingdom of truth first , and all things shall be added s I ...
... thought ! No rolling of drums , no tramp of squadrons or immeasurable tumult of baggage- wagons , attends its movements : in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating , which is one day to be crowned with more than ...
... thought that life is a grand tra- gedy , that over the ruins a glory shines , is to me the supreme help . - Felix ... Thought , but millions of Thoughts made into One- a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought , embodied in brick , in iron ...