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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... turn , by different canals , in opposite courses ; so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source , it takes different di- rections , and at last arrives at places far different from each other ; and with the ...
... turn again . Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame . HERE was Lamb himself , the most delightful , the most provoking , the most witty and ...
... turn to go , yet turning stay . Remember me when no more , day by day , You tell me of our future that you planned : Only remember me ; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray . Yet if you should forget me for a while And ...