Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own UseA 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. |
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Page 10
... person and generalize about the affections from a single instance - unless , indeed , you have the rare happiness to stumble at first upon an all - enlightening instance . You must have no convictions , because as Nietzsche puts it ...
... person and generalize about the affections from a single instance - unless , indeed , you have the rare happiness to stumble at first upon an all - enlightening instance . You must have no convictions , because as Nietzsche puts it ...
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... person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovable- ness of nature that I learn from Thee . May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all pettiness , from egotism , self - pity , envy , and all the ...
... person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovable- ness of nature that I learn from Thee . May I also touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrills all pettiness , from egotism , self - pity , envy , and all the ...
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... persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like star- dust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or ...
... persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like star- dust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought . The orator that stands before us in our moments of reflection and dream is not Cicero , or ...
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... person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago , he would suddenly find himself with one or two ...
... person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago , he would suddenly find himself with one or two ...
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... person , take each a To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such pre- dicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and con- tentious ...
... person , take each a To- bacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same , and smoke in one an- other's faces , till the weaker give in : but from such pre- dicted Peace - Era , what blood - filled , trenches , and con- tentious ...
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Abraham Lincoln beauty believe blood CALIFORNIA LIBRARY dark dead death delight divine dream earth Edwin Markham eternal evil eyes face father fear feel Finsteraarhorn flowers genius George Bernard Shaw George Eliot give glory hand happy head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor hope hour human J. M. W. Turner labor Lady Hamilton Lamia laws liberty light live look Lord mankind matter means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night pain passions peace play pleasure Pontius Pilate poor race religion Robert Louis Stevenson seems slaves sleep sorrow soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell things Thomas Paine thou thought thousand tion tree true truth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA virtue whole wind woman words youth
Popular passages
Page 194 - Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 28 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 195 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Page 99 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 133 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 80 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 188 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 194 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 139 - In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 183 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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