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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... hear it strike . Nothing more awful have I ever seen than the yawning of that chasm ; and the stillness , solemn as mid- night , profound as death . The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear ...
... hear , the people all exulting , While follow eyes the steady keel , the vessel grim and daring ; But O heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , foresee my fate , " Fallen cold and dead ...
... hear it , and the cry comes down the wind , And their feet are marching on . Oye rich men , hear and tremble , for with words the sound is rife : " Once for you and death we labored : changed henceforward is the strife , We are men ...