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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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Charity | Pleasure |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

Charity | Pleasure | Truth |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

If a householder molds himself according to the circumstances just like nature molds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. One who does this successfully gains in all walks of life.

Charity | Service |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

By practicing concentration the mind can be made stable. A stable mind helps in taking right decisions and achieving the desired result.

Charity | Position |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner of later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

Charity | Immortality | Wealth |

Turkish Proverbs

He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

Charity |

William Law

He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everything. When we thus live wholly unto God, God is wholly ours and we are then happy in all the happiness of God; for by uniting with Him in heart, and will, and spirit, we are united to all that He is and has in Himself. This is the purity and perfection of life that we pray for in the Lord's Prayer, that God's kingdom may come and His will be done in us, as it is in Heaven. And this we may be sure is not only necessary, but attainable by us.

Charity | Money | Pride | Waste | Will |

William Shakespeare

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

Charity |

Elihu Root

War comes today as the result of one of three causes: either actual or threatened wrong by one country to another, or suspicion by one country that another intends to do it wrong ... or, from bitterness of feeling, dependent in no degree whatever upon substantial questions of difference. . . . The least of these three causes of war is actual injustice.

Brotherhood | Charity | Desire | Duty | Individual | Judgment | Love | Malice | People | Progress | Prosperity | Regard | Sentiment | Happiness |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the pleasant orchard closes, `God bless all our gains', say we; but `May God bless all our losses' better suits with our degree.

Age | Charity | Doubt | Faith |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Charity | Church | Good | Lord |

Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch

In the common sense of the word, Judaism is not a religion, it is not a system of dogmas, of sacramental grace; it is not a bundle of rites and ceremonies; it is not a road to happiness in the hereafter; it is not a scheme of salvation from original sin; it does neither stand nor fall with our views as to the character of those books we call sacred, and as to their authorship. But it is a message to the world that righteousness must be its own reward, and is of that force which builds the world and shapes the courses of men.

Agnostic | Belief | Charity | God | Man | Mercy | Need | Pity | Thinkers | God | Agnostic |

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

He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, with that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire and visions rise and change which kill me with desire.

Charity | Giving |

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

I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me - will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say, twenty years hence, “That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since - my children are dearer to me than she was, and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her, I shall be sorry that I must leave them!” Will you say so, Heathcliff?

Charity | Death | Giving | Insult | Little | Revenge | Torture | Insult |

English Proverbs

He that has no children knows not what love is.

Charity |

Evelyn Underhill

If you have made a decision, and you still feel, taking it all in all, it was the right one, then don't look over your shoulder on what might have been. If it was wrong, ask for forgiveness and accept the present consequences, happily and without remorse. Nothing is more corrosive of the powers you should be using to meet the present.

Charity | Cost | Little | Love | Piety | World | Talent |

Evelyn Underhill

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

Charity | Life | Life |

Evelyn Underhill

When you let intuition have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

Charity | Desire | Events | God | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Reality | God |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity."

Change | Charity | Religion | Temper |