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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... meet his eye . Surely another age will wonder over this curiosity of letters - that for five years the needle of literary endeavor in Great Britain has quivered towards a little island in the South Pacific , as to its magnetic pole ...
... meet you across Death's border , and I tell you , Gover- nor Wise , prepare for eternity . You admit you are a slave - holder . You have arespon- sibility weightier than mine s Prepare to meet your God ! " " - Governor Henry A. Wise's ...
Elbert Hubbard. Samuel Johnson Meets His Future Biographer R. THOMAS DAVIES the actor , who then kept a book ... meet him ; but by some unlucky accident or other he was prevented from coming to us . Mr. Thomas Davies was a man of ...