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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... night , my friend . But is there for the night a resting - place ? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin . May not the darkness hide it from my face ? You can not miss that inn . Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ? Those who ...
... night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams , and were to compare this with the other days and nights of his life ; and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more ...
... Night . O , great , good , beautiful Night , you are so calm , so pure . I gaze through the ripples of the night - wind down into your dark depths where the stars lie strewn abouts Are they the jewel - offerings some ill - fated lover ...