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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... ness as in stress or trial , God of my soul , help me to play the man . Amen ! " The Actor's Prayer , " by Dr. Frank Crane . that men call Can not an actor be God's man ? Can not I , whose business it is to play , be as conscientious as ...
... ness . It is not so much that they have something to say , as that they are filled with a desire to say something . Nearly all our magazine poets seem filled with the same desire ; what labor , what art and technique ; but what a dearth ...
... ness , tears , the mouth of the worm has fed of them all . Into that sacred bridal- gloom of death where he holds his nup- tials with eternity let not our rash speculations follow him ; let us hope , rather , that as , amidst material ...