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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... true . For if there were some way by which some of us could get free apart from others , if there were some way by ... true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake , And , with leathern hearts , forget That we owe mankind a ...
... true , With eyes of gold and bramble - dew , Steel true and blade straight The great Artificer made my mate . HE man who , by some sud- den revolution of fortune , is lifted up all at once into a condition of life greatly above what he ...
... true is as if one should say that a flower or a tree or a planet is not true ; to scoff at them is to scoff at the law of the universe . In welding together into noble form , whether in the book of Genesis , or in the Psalms , or in the ...