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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... leaves its never - so - little scar . The drunken Rip Van Winkle , in Jeffer- son's play , excuses himself for every fresh ... leave the final result to itself . He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find ...
... leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had , Better by far you should forget and smile Thanthat you should remember and besad . REST O earth , lie heavily upon her eyes ; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching , Earth ; Lie close ...
... leave our bonfire . " If we had some music ! " Mendels sohn said , " Could any one get something to play on ? " Then my brother re- collected that we were near the gar- dener's cottage , and that the gardener had a fiddle . Off rushed ...