Great Throughts Treasury

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Emil M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Kill | Worth |

Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch

Alone, man—weak, tottering—yet with God this handful of dust made to be unmade, moulded to be molding, grasps the ungraspable, utters the ineffable, and when what seems too profound for human intelligence sweeps into the horizon, solitude is no more and misery has departed.

Worth |

Emile Zola

We have before us the ignoble spectacle of men who are sunken in debts and crimes being hailed as innocent, whereas the honor of a man whose life is spotless is being vilely attacked: A society that sinks to that level has fallen into decay.

Devotion | Dignity | Honor | Love | Nothing | Respect | Will | Respect |

Emile Zola

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Accuracy | Dignity | Discipline | Enough | Justice | Land | Love | Means | Need | Obedience | Piety | Position | Respect | Tomorrow | Will | Respect |

Emile Zola

The idea of discipline is superior in the blood of the soldiers, the accuracy is not enough to deflect his position of authority? Discipline means obedience to say. army is the dignity of us, loving him, asked him to show respect. Yes, no doubt, will stand up to the first threat, the French army, which is to defend the land of all the people, who love and respect him, but. But it's not that, we need justice and we want to keep the inside of her respected. Maybe tomorrow will give our hands the sword in question, he comes to the master. The hilt of the sword, that when it comes to kissing piety to God, no!

Fate | Fear | Fate |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!

Danger | Worth | Danger |

Emma Goldman

Served as inspiration for Roger Baldwin, a future founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Change | Improvement | Life | Life | Price | Revolution | Struggle | Worth | Loss |

Emma Goldman

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

Bigotry | Economics | Future | God | Kill | Love | Man | Means | Men | Past | Position | Religion | Will | Worth | God |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

Change | Courage | Day | Dignity | Father | Good | Heart | Little | Mother | Will | Friends | Learn | Think |

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Aims | Change | Dignity | Liberty | Means | Precept | Right |

Emmet Fox

The whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.

Chance | Desire | Forgiveness | Heart | Nothing | Problems | Troubles | Forgiveness | Forgive | Teacher |

Emma Goldman

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Coercion | Dignity | Effort | Existence | Freedom | Individual | Initiative | Labor | Life | Life | Man | Murder | People | Sense | Submission | Terrorism | Tyranny | Murder | Value |

Emmet Fox

A dynamic person is one who really makes a difference in the world; who does something that changes things or other people. The magnitude of the work done may not be great, but the world is different because that person has lived and worked. The real secret of a dynamic personality is to believe that God works through you, whatever you may be doing; to put his service first, and to be as sincere, practical, and efficient as you know how.

Dignity | Impossibility | Pain | Suffering |

Emma Goldman

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

Brotherhood | Dignity | Equity | Justice | Liberty | Love | Sense | Society | Society |

Emmanuel Lévinas , originally Emanuelis Lévinas

To kill, like to die, is to seek an escape from being, to go where freedom and negation operate. Horror is the event of being which returns in the heart of this negation, as though nothing had happened.

Atheism | God | Piety | Worth | God |

English Proverbs

An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.

Worth |

English Proverbs

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.

Will | Worth |

English Proverbs

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Discretion | Worth |

English Proverbs

Between two stools one goes (falls) to the ground.

Worth |

English Proverbs

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Worth |