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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... sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle ; — Why not I with thine ? See the mountains kiss high heaven , And the waves clasp one another ; No sister flower would be ...
... sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide- abide , because there is no portal of ex- pression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things . Poetry redeems from decay the ...
... sweet , so graceful . Driving home in the moonlight of middle But we sit and weep June , And then I found Davis . We were married and lived together for seventy years , Enjoying , working , raising the twelve children , Eight of whom we ...