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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... hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar . " Crossing the Bar , " by Alfred Lord Tennyson Do you fear the force of the wind , The. Time , and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we ...
... hope and apart from any of the joy of accomplishment . Work should be a joy ; it should be the motive of our lives ; and it would be if we regarded it in the light of its being a labor of love ; but we have come to think of what we call ...
... hope be our desire . Come and live ! for life awaketh , and the world shall never tire : And the hope is marching on . " " On we march then , we the workers , and the rumor that ye hear the blended sound of battle and deliv- ' rance ...