Great Throughts Treasury

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William Shakespeare

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

Good | Light | Passion | Old |

William Shakespeare

Oh! never say that 1 was false of heart, Though absence seemed my flame to qualify.

Passion | Soul |

William Shakespeare

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

Folly | Love | Passion |

William Shakespeare

O, judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.

Nothing | Passion | Soul |

William Shakespeare

O, wither’d is the garland of the war! The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls are level now with men; the odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon.

Appetite | Good | Imagination | Thinking |

William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)

Conscience | Cunning | Defeat | Devil | Father | Force | Gall | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Murder | Oppression | Passion | Play | Power | Property | Revenge | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Weakness | Will | Words | Murder | Guilty |

William Shakespeare

Or ere I could Give him that parting kiss which I had set Betwixt two charming words--comes in my father, And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing.

Appetite | Imagination |

William Shakespeare

O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; no more of that.

Appetite | Father | Heaven | Little | Mother | Nature | Rank | Tears | Wants | Old | Think |

Edwin Percy Whipple

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

Conscience | Mercy | World |

Elif Safak

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing submission with weakness, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

Balance | Conscience | Ends | Journey | Right | Style | Woman |

Elif Safak

Another base unit and being alone are two different things, when be lonely It's easy to fool yourself and think you you are going on the right path but being alone is better for us because it means you will be alone without feeling you are single , but in the end, it is best that you are looking for one person serve as a mirror for you to remember that you cannot really see yourself, but at the heart of another person and the existence of God P inside.

Creativity | Men | Mother | Parents | Passion |

Albert Einstein

But, on the other hand, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.

Conscience | Reading |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.

Conscience |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love | Men | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love | Men | Passion | Quiet | Old |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You believe in God, for your part?--that He who makes can make good things from ill things, best from worst, as men plant tulips upon dunghills when they wish them finest.

Conscience | God | Light | Love | Need | Nothing | Work | God |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Impulse | Inferiority | Religion | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death.

Care | Love | Means | Passion |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Conscience | Earth | Good | Happy | Labor | Laughter | Man | People | Wealth | Will | Worry |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, while he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

Impulse | Love | Wonder |