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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... hand , which swayed and trembled feebly . Bewildered , con- fused , I shook that dirty , tremulous hand heartily .... " Blame me not , brother ; I have nothing , brother . " The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me ; his blue ...
... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fires of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , and what art , Could twist the sinews ...
... hand frequently And it is hands that grope at ghostly doors ; And romp of spirit - children on the pave ; It is the tender sighing of the brave Who fell , ah ! long ago , in futile wars ; It is such sound as death ; and , after all ...