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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... happy , care - forgetting sleep , - For stars that pierce the sombre dark , For morn , awaking with the lark , For life new - stirring ' neath the bark , - For sunshine and the blessed rain , For budding grove and blossomy lane , For ...
... happy state of companionship and mutual good - will , which is a source of such pure and un- alloyed delight , and one so incompat- ible with the cares and sorrows of the world , that the religious belief of the most civilized nations ...
... happy , on the convenience of things , the pleasant parts of conversations , the well- dressed dishes , the goodness of the wines , the fine weather , etc. , and enjoy all with cheerfulness . Those who are to be un- happy think and ...