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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Elbert Hubbard. TEP by step my investiga- tion of blindness led me into the industrial world . And what a world it is ! I must face unflinchingly a world of facts - a world of misery and degrada- tion , of blindness , crookedness , and ...
... tion from the world , what purity , what devotion , what exemplary virtue , are required in those who are to guide others to glory ! I say exemp- lary ; for low , com- mon degrees of piety are not suffi- cient for those of the sacred ...
... tion . The dead do not suffer . And if they live again , their lives will surely be as good as ours . We have no fear . We are all children of the same mother , and the same fate awaits us all . We , too , have our re- ligion , and it ...