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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... truth is that good friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and ... truth . But most men are afraid of the truth . Make the truth easier than a lie . Make the truth welcomer than its ...
... truth - one to speak and another to hear . " He must be very little experienced , or have no great zeal for truth , who does not recog . nize the fact . A grain of anger or a grain of suspicion produces strange acoustical effects , and ...
... truth of all bibles , and especially of our own . Of vast value they indeed often are as a record of historical outward fact ; recent researches in the East are con- stantly increasing this value ; but it is not for this that we prize ...