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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... thou to tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense clouds veil the earth ... Wait ! " More thousands of years ...
... Thou art my secret . I triumph inwardly to find Thy presence and taste the mystic joy of Thy friend- ship , while the world suspects not . Thou washest my heart clean as the Priest's . Thou givest me a holy ambition to do my work well ...
... thou holdest to this , expecting nothing , fearing nothing , but satisfied with thy present activity ac- cording to Nature , and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest , thou wilt live happy . And there is no man ...