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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Elizabeth Gilbert

You must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

Earth | World |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Eternity stands always fronting God; a stern colossal image, with blind eyes, and grand dim lips, that murmur evermore, "God - God - God!"

Disdain | Doubt | Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Little |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.

Earth | Smile | Worth |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- they find no new expression for the flame.

Love | Men | Struggle | Truth | Universe |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art a guest for queens to social pageantries, with gages from a hundred brighter eyes than tears even can make mine... what hast though to do with looking from the lattice-lights at me, a poor, tired, wandering singer.

Angels | Day | Faith | Heaven | Past |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Earth | Humanity | Time | Will |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Earth |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Conscience | Earth | Good | Happy | Labor | Laughter | Man | People | Wealth | Will | Worry |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Earth | Wrong |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Books | Discovery | Teach | Universe | Discovery |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

Books | Teach | Universe |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack but no one can rate a burden's weight until it has been on his back.

Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Smile | Will | Worth |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, perhaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all-female world.

Earth | Man | Power | Religion | System | Will | Woman | Wonder | World | Old |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Heaven | Hell | Human race | Race | Will |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Heaven | Lord | Love | Reason | Wisdom |

Emil M. Cioran

A relief bordering on orgasm at the notion that one will never again embrace a cause, any cause.

Earth |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Angels | Bible | Earth | Heaven | Meaning | People | Understanding | Wisdom | Bible |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

We cannot become angels, that is, come into heaven, unless we bring something of an angelic character from living in this world.

Heaven |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

God | Heaven | God |