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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... glory . horizon , decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star , full of life and splendor , and joy . Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate ...
... glory shines , is to me the supreme help . - Felix Adler . At the foot of thy crags , O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me . " Break , Break , Break , " by Alfred , Lord Tennyson finds himself in ...
... glory : for he despised the nation whose suffrages he desired ; and no spark of enthusiasm mingled with his craving to astonish the human race . . . . His face , thin and pale at that time , was very agreeable : since then he has gained ...