Great Throughts Treasury

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Christian Nestell Bovee

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Delusion | Happy | Man | Wisdom | Happiness |

Carl Victor de Bonstetten

To resist with success the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart; to keep these in parallel vigor, one must exercise, study, and love.

Age | Body | Heart | Love | Mind | Old age | Study | Success | Wisdom | Old |

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Good | Inclination | Wisdom | Happiness |

F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Wisdom | Happiness |

Vera Mary Brittain

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any; method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

Important | Majority | Method | Reform | Success | Wisdom | Think |

Joyce Brothers

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Failure | Inevitable | Success | Wisdom | Failure | Learn |

John Bowring, fully Sir John Bowring

He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens - one of joy, peace and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.

Comfort | Duty | Earth | Glory | Grave | Joy | Peace | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

George Barrell Cheever

The passions and capacities of our nature are foundations of power, happiness and glory; but if we turn them into occasions and sources of self-indulgence, the structure itself falls, and buries everything in its overwhelming desolation.

Desolation | Glory | Indulgence | Nature | Power | Self | Wisdom | Happiness |

Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

Employment, which Galen calls, "Nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Indolence | Mother | Nature | Wisdom | Happiness |

Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization depends - the right of the laborer. There is very little success where there is little laughter.

Civilization | Laughter | Little | Property | Right | Success | Wisdom |

William R. Catton, Jr.

Viewed ecologically, the human saga is a tragic success story.

Story | Success | Wisdom |

Philarète Chasles, fully Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.

Opportunity | Success | Wisdom |

George Barrell Cheever

The man who can really, in living union of the mind and heart, converse with God through nature, finds in the material forms around him, a source of power and happiness inexhaustible, and like the life of angels. The highest life and glory of man is to be alive unto God; and when this grandeur of sensibility to him, and this power of communion with him is carried, as the habit of the soul, into the forms of nature, then the walls of our world are as the gates of heaven.

Angels | Glory | God | Habit | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Nature | Power | Sensibility | Soul | Wisdom | World | God | Happiness |

Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Hope | Love | Wisdom | Happiness |

Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Success | Wisdom |

Mark Caine

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Man | People | Service | Success | Wisdom |