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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... earth . ' T is the breath of the Eternal - the kiss of the Immortal Oratory is far above houses and lands , us down , The men who felled the forests , cultivated the earth , spanned the rivers with bridges of steel , built the railways ...
... earth's beauty or failed to express it ; who has looked for the best in others and given the best he had ; whose life was an inspiration ; whose memory is a benediction . Mrs. A. J. Stanley . T is said that in love we idolize the said ...
... earth , so full of things . My feet are hot with tramping the stolid street . My throat is choked with the dust of trivial traffic . The things of my labor have become irksome to me mere toys that I have played with all day . I will lay ...