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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... fire that darts its rays through all the senses ; it is in this fire that existence consists ; all the obser- vations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this me , the center and moving power of our sentiments and ...
... fire glared on the wise and daring . Now , they dipped their noble limbs in yon sedgy lakes , and now , they paddled the light canoe along yon rocky shores . Here they warred ; the echoing whoop , the bloody grapple , the defying death ...
... fire , a little way off it , in a thicket among the trees , Mendels- sohn helping with the utmost zeal , dragging up more and more wood : we tired ourselves with our merry work ; we sat down round our fire , the smoke went off , the ...