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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... keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear , And flesh and blood so cheap ! " " The Song of the Shirt , " by Thomas Hood I met her on the Umbrian Hills , Her hair. solemn walls . By dash of wind and wave , by forces of the frost , by ...
... Keep on thinking of that higher position , keep the image constantly before you , and -no , you will not suddenly be transport- ed into the higher job , but you will find that you are preparing yourself to occupy the better position in ...
... keeps them white ; She guards them from the steep . She feeds them on the fragrant height . And folds them in for sleep ... keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day , he may safely leave the final result to itself . He can with ...