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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... Lord , Be merciful to me , a fool ! " No pity , Lord , could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool ; though it were far from Britain- though we had never spoken to him and he , per- haps , had barely heard our names- we ...
... Lord Byron's statue . When my noblesitter arrived at my studio , he took his place before me and immediately put on a strange air , entirely different from his natural physiognomy . " My lord , " said I , " have the goodness to sit ...
... LORD : I have been in- formed by the proprietor of the World that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public , were written by your Lordship . To be so distinguished is an honor , which , being very little accus ...