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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... death is been in the habit It sinks , and I am ready to depart . and there , as men " I strove With None , " by Walter Savage Landor are what good approaching end happened by mere chance . But I see. RIENDS , who would have acquitted me ...
... death by our good old com- mon law . And such was the tenderness , such the reluctance to shed blood , that if recompense could possibly be made , life was not to be touched . Treason being against the King , the remission of the crime ...
... death and shame . When Death and Shame would woo Him last , From under the trees they drew Him last : ' Twas on a tree they slew Him - last When out of the woods He came . " A Ballad of Trees and the Master , " But the man who had ...