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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... eyes that are steady and shoulders that are straight . No burden except possibly the weight of many years bends his shoulders , and his eyes meet yours in honest fashion , because he neither fears , nor has been shamed , at the bar of ...
... eyes again . I am watch- ing a little solemn- faced boy sitting crouched in a cor- ner and listening to the divine ser that pale man in his long , dignified black gown , toward that sonorous , unctuous mouth , from whose lips flows the ...
... eyes on the corpse- like face and see that He died long ago , that He is nothing more than wood , nothing other than a puppet . Christ , it is no longer Thee to whom we pray . Look there ! Look there ! It is he . The new patron saint of ...