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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Francis William Bourdillon

The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

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Character | Heart | Life | Life | Light | Love | Mind |

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Lady Blessington, born Margaret Power

A woman’s head is always influenced by her heart; but a man’s heart is always influenced by his head.

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Character | Heart | Man | Woman |

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Thomas Brooks

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much; humbled.

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Character | Grace | Heart | Love | Mercy | Nothing | Sin | Will |

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Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

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Character | Heart | Joy | Mind |

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Phillips Brooks

It is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science.

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Better | Character | Heart | Mind | Science | Sentiment | Teach | Truth |

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Jeremiah Burroughs or Burroughes

That which cometh from the heart will go to the heart.

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Character | Heart | Will | Wisdom |

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Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

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Character | Heart | Inspiration | Mind | Will | Wisdom |

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Alice Cary

True worth is in being, not seeming.

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Character | Worth |

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William Ellery Channing

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people’s energy, intellect and virtues.

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Character | Energy | Freedom | People | Worth | Intellect |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The child’s grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man’s sorrow; and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

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Character | Fame | Grief | Heart | Little | Man | Sorrow |

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Richard Cecil

The very heart and root of sin is in an independent spirit. We erect the idol self; and not only wish others to worship, but worship ourselves.

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Character | Heart | Self | Sin | Spirit | Worship |

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Charles Cahier

He who opens his heart to ambition closes it to repose.

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Ambition | Character | Heart | Repose | Ambition |

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William Ellery Channing

I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind.

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Character | Duty | Mankind | Nothing | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |

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Samuel Butler

He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor’s and shown publicly to the rabble.

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Character | Heart | Sense | Traitor | Words |

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much and know little; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little.

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Character | Little | Man | Worth |

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Adam Clarke

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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Character | Heart | Prayer |

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