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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... dream of " a very pleasant life . " " I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner : Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose , and let him wander with it , and muse upon ...
... dream as of old by the river . And be loved for the dream alway ; For a dreamer lives forever , And a toiler dies in a day . " The Dreamer , " by John Boyle O'Reilly O Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip The. this , as a great ...
... dream - and found They had more dreams than I. " The Dream - Bearer , " by Mary Carolyn Davies It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as free- dom should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny ...