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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... light ! A light ! A light ! A light ! It grew , a starlit flag unfurled ! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn . He gained a world ; he gave that world Its grandest lesson : " On ! sail on ! " " Columbus , " by Joaquin Miller A murdered ...
... light , " for training . " A great , tall man , with a large head and a high , wide brow , their captain - one who had seen service " -marshaled them into line , numbering but seventy , and bade " every man load his piece with powder ...
... light , in a world of never - failing April hues . When he attempts to depart from the fairyland of which he was the Pros- pero , and to match himself with the master of sublime thought or earnest passion , he proves his weakness . But ...