Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Samuel Smiles

Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.

Character | Conscience | Good | Human nature | Individual | Men | Nature | Order | Power | Qualities | Rule | Society | World |

Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Character | Conscience | Deeds | Good | Heart | Pain | Deeds |

Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne

Trust that man is nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Character | Conscience | Man | Nothing | Trust |

Thomas De Witt Talmage

No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defense; defense, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.

Boasting | Character | Conscience | Custom | Defense | Evil | Indulgence | Man | Mind | Practice |

William Jewett Tucker

Be not content with the commonplace in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

Ambition | Attainment | Character | Conscience | Heart | Impression | Power | Will | World | Ambition |

Daniel Webster

A conscience void of offense, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.

Character | Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Man | Offense | God |

Richard Baxter

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Conscience | Death | God | Nothing | Quiet | Time | Wisdom |

John Calvin

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Conscience | Hell | Soul | Torture | Wisdom |

William Ellery Channing

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Conscience | Important | Object | Wisdom |

William Havard

He that acts unjustly is the worst rebel to himself; and though now ambition’s trumpet and drum of power may drown the sound, yet conscience with one day speak loudly to him.

Ambition | Conscience | Day | Power | Sound | Wisdom |

Benjamin R. Haydon

Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Conscience | Consequences | Duty | God | Right | Wisdom |