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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William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Boys | Day | Glory | Good | Greatness | Hate | Heart | Hope | Little | Man | Mercy | Pride | Smile | Old |

William Shakespeare

Some grief shows much of love, but much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Better | Birth | Glory | Joy | Love | Pride |

William Shakespeare

Sir, I am about to weep; but, thinking that We are a queen (or long have dreamed so), certain The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.

Envy | Man | Pride |

Emil M. Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Pride | Time |

Emil M. Cioran

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Nothing | Pride |

Émile Souvestre

Death, that faithful friend of the .wretched

Pride |

Emma Goldman

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

Hate | Joy | Life | Life | Logic | Machines | Pride | Risk | Thought | Will | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

Intelligence | Man | Pride |

Ernest Becker

To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.

Contempt | Family | Heart | Ideas | Individuality | Life | Life | Little | Man | Means | Mystery | Need | Pain | Pride | Solitude | Words | Yearnings |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

Kill | Love | Pride | Sin |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Guerrilla warfare is a people's warfare; an attempt to carry out this type of war without the population's support is a prelude to inevitable disaster.

Good | Important | Pride | Remuneration |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!

Contempt | Fighting | Heart | Little | Pride | Afraid | Old | Think |

Ezra Taft Benson

My beloved brethren and sisters, as we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Church. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it.

Pride | Think |

Ezra Taft Benson

In the work of the Lord there should be no serious mistakes. The most important point of your planning should be on your knees.

Pride | Relationship |

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Care | Devil | Force | God | Looks | Man | Men | Pride | Self | Spirit | God |

Ezra Taft Benson

The battles are not over yet, and there will yet be times when this great nation will need the overshadowing help of Deity. Will we as a nation be worthy to call upon Him for help?

Counsel | Pride | Will | Counsel |

Ezra Taft Benson

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

Pride | Repentance |

Ezer Weizman

King Hussein was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, a brave soldier who fought for peace, a clever man, warm-hearted and the symbol of good neighborly relations,

Heart | People | Pride |

Italian Proverbs

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Pride |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Curiosity | Error | Experience | Important | Life | Life | Nothing | Past | Pleasure | Price | Pride | Sense | Story | Teach | Time | Waiting | Will | Wrong |