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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... flowers , and orange - flowers are a bridal crown with us , a nation of yesterday . Flowers garlanded the Grecian altar , and hung in votive wreath before the Christian shrine . All these are appro- priate uses . Flow- ers should deck ...
... flowers down there and the poor have nown at all . " At this point I got in some questions about God's language and the kind of flowers 66 Well , dear , " she said , " He spakes Irish t ' Irish people , an ' the charioteer was an ...
... flower . From the tiny , mottled egg come the wings that by and by shall pass the immense of sea . It is in this ... flowers and the azure sky , shall become , as it were , interwoven into man's existence . He shall take from all ...