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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... player on the other side is hidden from us . We know that his play is always fair , just , and patient . But also we know , to our cost , that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the small- est allowance for ignorance . To the man who ...
... play his play , And catch the lilt of his laughter gay , And follow his dancing feet as they stray ; For he knows the road to Laughter- town , O ye who have lost the way ! -Katherine D. Blake . taken ; for Sin and Remorse so easily ...
... playing well your part , And Booth , who strode in a mimic play within the play , Often and often I saw you , As the cawing crows winged their way to the wood Over my house - top at solemn sunsets , There by my window , Alone ...