Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookArcadia Publishing, 1998 M12 19 - 244 páginas A 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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... eternal circle , it is easy to see that there could never be any improvement among them . Men must remain as brutes do , the same Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven , If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and ...
... eternal urge within us which is trying to push us on and on , up and up ? It is the urge , the push in the great force within us , which is perpetu- ally prodding us to do our best and refuses to accept our second best . -Orison Swett ...
... eternal regions where the owl - winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning , a power to be exerted according to the determina- tion of the will . A man can not say it : " I will compose poetry ...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista completa - 1923 |
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista completa - 1923 |
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