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. Preach about the old sins , Preacher ! And the old virtues , too : You must not steal nor take man's life , You must not covet your neighbor's wife , And woman must cling at every cost To her one virtue , or she is lost ...
... virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance . There Grew dawn . Virtue itself alone is sufficient to make a man great , glorious and happy . He that is acquainted with Cato , as I am , can not help think- ing , as I do now , and ...
... virtue acquired ? > Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Oh the bless- ed sleep that fol- lows such a diary ! Oh the tran- quillity , liberty , and greatness of that mind which is a spy upon it ...