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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... tree with peculiar insistence : " And wilt thou , too , seek to join the universal love - feast , thou whose noble branches have been broken by the storm ? " Je Thus , in the enchanted forest , mutual distrust drove back the sap , and ...
... tree . A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast ; NEVER - CEASING flood of discharged convicts pours back into our penitentiaries , not because they have found life there a paradise , but because the ...
... tree they slew Him - last When out of the woods He came . " A Ballad of Trees and the Master , " But the man who had suffered exile OR money enters. to lamentable outcries They gathered tumultuously together exclaiming against the ...