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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... heart the transports of affection , and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned Life ! we ... heart has proved equal to the prodigious undertaking which God set it . Rebuffed , but always persevering ; self ...
... heart , when all is said , Her woman's heart for me ! " Song , " by William Watson in some way heightened and intensified . Is not here a clue to what we mean by style ? Style transforms common quartz into an Egyptian pebble . We are ...
... heart that breaks , In prison - cell or yard , Is as that broken box that gave Its treasure to the Lord , And filled the unclean leper's house With the scent of costliest nard . Ah ! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon ...