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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... heaven . I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston , as of reading all ... Heaven an ' the finest charioteer . " Me boy , ' says God , take a million tons of th ' choicest seeds of th ...
... heaven we fall . " Earth bears no balsam for mistakes ; Men crown the knave , and scourge the tool That did his will ; but Thou , O Lord , Be merciful to me , a fool ! ” The room was hushed ; in silence rose The King , and sought his ...
... heaven . Look in the crystal ! See how he hastens on To the place where his path comes up to the path of a child of Plutarch and Shakespeare . O Lincoln , actor indeed , playing well your part , And Booth , who strode in a mimic play ...