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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... remember nights and days of calm when we pulled , we pulled , and the boat seemed to stand still , as if bewitched within the circle of the sea horizon . I remember the heat , the deluge of rain- squalls that kept us bailing for dear ...
... remember they al- ways foretold what would happen in such a case , but none would be- lieve them ; they advised such a man from the begin- ning and told him the consequences , just as they hap- pened ; but he would have his own way ...
... REMEMBER Remember me when I am gone away , Gone far into the silent land ! When you can no more hold me by the hand , Nor I half turn to go , yet turning stay . Remember me when no more , day by day , You tell me of our future that you ...