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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... comes it that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our existence at a period when it be- comes scarce worth the keeping ? Is it that Nature , atten- The streets are full of human toys , Wound up for threescore years ; Their springs ...
... comes the woman with the key , and in she steps ; the win- dows are opened , the imprisoned air rushes out , the wind enters ; the lamps and the fire are lit ; so that light fills windows and doors . The tables are set , there is the ...
... comes down the wind , And their feet are marching on . Oye rich men , hear and tremble , for with words the sound is rife : " Once for you and death we labored : changed henceforward is the strife , We are men , and we shall battle for ...