Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookArcadia Publishing, 1998 M12 19 - 244 pages A 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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... youth goes , much goes with it . When manhood comes , much comes with it . We exchange a world of delightful sensations and im- pressions for a world of duties and studies and meditations . The youth enjoys what the man tries to ...
... YOUTH has a certain melancholy and sadness , while Age is valiantly cheerful . . . . A chief lesson of youth should be to learn to enjoy solitude- a source of peace and happiness . In my years of youth I was delighted when the doorbell ...
... youth and strong arm . It gave me a pang to think of them left weak and failing at home , when I might have been the staff of their old age ; but their hearts were too full of motherly love for them to allow me to give up my profession ...