Elbert Hubbard
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 165
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Excerpt from So Here Cometh White Hyacinths, Being a Book of the Heart A common question this, "would you care to live your life over again?" Not only is it a common question, but a foolish one, since we were sent into life without our permission, & are being sent out of it against our will, and the option of a return ticket is not ours But if urged to reply I would say with Benjamin Franklin, "Yes, provided, of course, that you allow me the author's privilege of correcting the second edition." If, however, this is denied, I will still say, "Yes," and say it so quickly it will give you vertigo In reading the Journal of John Wesley the other day, I ran across this item written in the author's eighty-fifth year, "In all of my life I have never had a period of depression nor unhappiness that lasted more than half an hour." I can truthfully say the same. One thing even Omnipotence cannot do, and that is to make that which once occurred never to have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.