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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... whole day's work some- times , but the simple effort of turning it out has kept HAVE no special regard for Satan , but I can at least claim that I have no pre- judice against him . It may even be that I have been a little in his favor ...
... whole little culture - this sage , to whom the whole life of the earth is but an ephemeral eruption on its surface , and who consequently regards all human name- endeavor as finally vain - this thinker , who can see every- thing from ...
... whole youthful popu- lation to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature , the injustice would tend to be evened out , and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow . The military ideals ...