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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... wishes to live ; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live . And unselfish- ness is letting other ... wish for our love , Fling us a handful of stars ! esces in it , enjoys it . - Oscar Wilde . CHE HE tree which moves ...
... wish or a whim- From bravado or passion or pride , Was it harder for him ? But to live - every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt , While his friends met his conduct with doubt And the world with contempt . Was it thus that he ...
... wish that this day , this year , may bring to me ? Noth- ing that shall make the world or others poorer , nothing at the expense of other men ; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop with me , but touch me rather ...