Great Throughts Treasury

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Emmet Fox

Success and happiness are the natural condition of mankind. It is actually easier for us to demonstrate these things than the reverse. Bad habits of thinking and acting may obscure this fact for a time, just as a wrong way of walking or sitting, or holding a pen or a musical instrument may seem to be easier than the proper way, because we have accustomed ourselves to it; but the proper way is the easier nevertheless.

Life | Life | Man | Power | Sense | Truth | Will | Woman | Friends |

Emmet Fox

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

Beginning | Fear | Ideas | Life | Life | Love of money | Love | Money | Need | Public | Spirit | Learn |

English Proverbs

He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.

Life | Life |

English Proverbs

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

Peace |

English Proverbs

In unity there is strength.

Life | Life |

Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Life | Life | Little | Think |

Erskine Mason

There is no more waste in preaching, than there has been in making an. atonement which is not received. The precious seed which, Sabbath after Sabbath, is thrown out upon the moral desert, which resists and sets at naught all the diligence of the husbandman, is not lost. It will bring forth fruit–the broad field upon which at last shall be gathered the sublime, and awful, and mysterious, and stirring magnificence of the end, is white unto the harvest. Every grain is there giving produce–every particle of gospel truth springs up and waves on that awful field. I preach for a testimony–oh! it is in feebleness I speak. I cannot throw might into my language. I cannot breathe words which shall take a lasting form and substance, and fall upon my worldly-minded hearers–but yet they die not. I seem already to hear their reverberation from a thousand echoes, louder and louder, and deeper and deeper, responding to the anthems of the saved, or the bitter and deep toned knell which shall be rung over lost spirits. God prepare us, my brethren, for the end.

God | Happy | Life | Life | Man | Means | Nature | God |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Courage | Enough |

Feisal Abdul Rauf

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

Choice | Teach |

Eric Temple Bell

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Enough | Life | Life | Order |

Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Better | Peace | War | Think |

Esther Perel

If love is an act of imagination, then intimacy is an act of fruition.

Care | Lesson | Life | Life | Luxury | Need | People | Position | Responsibility | Right | Wrong | Think |

Ferdinand Foch

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

Freedom | Law | Life | Life | Sense | Unity |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?

Chance | Children | Day | Earth | God | Life | Life | Light | Love | Time | God | Friends |

Faye Wattleton

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Earth | Life | Life |

Eugene Benge

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Good | Life | Life | Man | Will |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I just clipped two articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop five pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a six-minute pecan pie.

Life | Life | Woman |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.

Life | Life |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''

Laughter | Life | Life | Thinking |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her before picture.

Peace |