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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... universe and give it the name of God the more they turn it into a devil . The universe , so far as we can observe it , is a wonderful and immense engine ; its extent , its order , its beauty , its cruelty , makes it alike impres- sive ...
... universe which are now utterly and hope- lessly discrediteds How , then , it is asked , amid the general wreck of old beliefs , can we hope that the relig- ious attitude in which from time immemorial we have been wont to contemplate the ...
... universe . In welding together into noble form , whether in the book of Genesis , or in the Psalms , or in the book of Job , or else- where , the great conceptions of men acting under earlier inspiration , whether in Egypt , or Chaldea ...