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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... blood , till it never can rise again . A red mist swims before my eyes . Of a sudden I see nothing but blood before me . The heav- ens have opened , and the red flood pours in through the windows . Blood wells up on the altar . The ...
... blood ; but they were of short duration , being all repealed by Solon , except one , for murder . . . . REASON , murder , rape , and burning a dwelling house , were all the crimes that were liable to be punished with death by our good ...
... blood further with the blood of my child- dren and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are dis- regarded by wicked , cruel and unjust enactments , I say let it be done . Let me say one word further . I feel ...