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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... side , follow it for a little among the solemn pines , and then pass out from the tree shadows and take your stand upon that farther rock , cling- ing to it well mean- while and being very sure of your footing , for your head will swim ...
... side we have intuition , divination , military strangeness , super- human instinct , a flashing glance ; some- thing that gazes like the eagle and strikes like lightning , all the mysteries of a pro- found mind , association with ...
... side dark and the other bright . But the other side , though you don't see it , is not dark ; it is bright , and its rays penetrate , and others do see it who are not God . I would take this For they starve the little frightened child ...