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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... stand amid the eternal ways , And what is mine shall know my face . Asleep , awake , by night or day , The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray , Nor change the tide of destiny . What matter if I stand alone ...
... stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or Burke , or Webster , but always some nameless ... stand these final shapes of the powerful , the perfect and the sublime - the aggregations of the greatest minds ...
... stand it . But that so many men , by mere accidents of birth and opportunity , should have a life of nothing else but toil and pain and hardness and inferiority imposed upon them , should have no vacation , while others natively no more ...