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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... fall asleep , And sew them on in a dream ! ( Continued on next page ) most stupendous scenes of Nature , the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone And now where shall I begin , and how shall I , in any wise , describe this ...
... fall too soon , if he suffer , or if he fall , in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country . Dit -Daniel Webster . O man today can lay claim to a liberal education unless he knows something of the reach and sweep of ...
... falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall . - Emerson . Truth is such a precious article let us all economize in its use . - Mark Twain . 10 10 IT is great , and there is no other greatness - to make one nook of God's ...