Great Throughts Treasury

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M. M. Brewster, fully Margaret Maria Brewster Gordon

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.

Eternity | Wisdom | Words | Old |

John Bunyan

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

Heart | Wisdom | Words |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

The main reason why silence is so efficacious an element of repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man's envy, and wounds no man's self-love.

Envy | Love | Man | Reason | Self | Self-love | Silence | Wisdom |

Vernon Carter

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but now what they mean.

Crime | Education | Mind | Progress | Science | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Wisdom | Words |

Shelagh Delaney

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.

Wisdom | Words |

William Congreve

Even silence may be eloquent in love.

Love | Silence | Wisdom |

Adam Clarke

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent ore the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real and immediate cause.

Accident | Cause | Chance | Ignorance | Men | Nature | Reason | Wisdom | Words |

Macdonald Clarke

The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven.

Heart | Heaven | Mind | Quiet | Rest | Wisdom |

Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.

Wisdom | Words |

Saint Columbanus, aka Saint Columbanus of Bobbio NULL

Reprove the wise: your words will bring you thanks.

Will | Wisdom | Wise | Words |

Martinus Dumiensis

If you yourself cannot keep silent, how can you expect silence from another?

Silence | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Enough | Grave | Silence | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.

Labor | Life | Life | Pain | Rest | Sorrow | Wisdom |