Great Throughts Treasury

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English Proverbs

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

Law |

Emmet Fox

One of the first rules on the spiritual path is that you must attend strictly to your own business and not interfere with that of others. Your neighbor's life is sacred and you have no right to try to manage it for him. Let him alone. God has given him free will and self-determination, so why should you interfere? Many well-meaning people are constantly "butting in"" to their neighbors' lives without invitation. They pretend to themselves that their only desire is to help, but this is self-deception. It is really a desire to interfere. Interference always does more harm than good. Actually those who mind other people's business always neglect their own. The man who wants to put your house in order has always made a failure of his own life. M.Y.O.B. Of course, this does not mean that you are not to help people whenever you can; in fact, you should make it a rule to try to do at least one kind act every day; but you must do it without interfering or encroaching. When in doubt, claim Divine Guidance. It is always right to give your neighbor the right thought. Under any circumstances it can only do good to "Golden Key" him when you think of him. Don't fuss - God is running the universe.

Boasting | Business | Confidence | Destroy | Important | Inspiration | Kill | Law | Nature | People | Plan | Secrecy | Talking | Will | World | Business | Child |

English Proverbs

The leopard does not change his spots.

Law |

English Proverbs

The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.

Man |

Ervin László

We rarely write the names of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon – each unique and surely of crucial significance – as here, honoring them with a capital letter. This may seem trivial, but our dislocation from nature is one of the most serious schisms in our dismembered psyche and probably the most urgent relationship we need to heal.

Action | Consciousness | Energy | Important | Intention | Law | Power |

Ferdinand Foch

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

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

Evgeny Morozov

The use of text messaging for propaganda purposes – known as “red-texting” – reveals another creative streak among China’s propaganda virtuosos. The practice may have grown out of a competition organized by one of China’s mobile phone operators to compose the most eloquent Party-admiring text message. Fast forward a few years, and senior telecom officials in Beijing are already busily attending “red-texting” symposia. “I really like these words of Chairman Mao: ‘The world is ours, we should unite for achievements. Responsibility and seriousness can conquer the world and the Chinese Communist Party members represent these qualities.’ These words are incisive and inspirational.” This is a text message that thirteen million mobile phone users in the Chinese city of Chongqing received one day in April 2009. Sent by Bo Xilai, the aggressive secretary of the city’s Communist Party who is speculated to have strong ambitions for a future in national politics, the messages were then forwarded another sixteen millions times. Not so bad for an odd quote from a long-dead Communist dictator.

Care | Corruption | Darkness | Education | Efficiency | Fear | Government | Justice | Model | Preference | Reading | Receive | Government |

Ernest Newman

The good composer is slowly discovered; the bad composer is slowly found out.

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If your desire is strong enough, it doesn't matter what your beliefs are. If you have a desire that is strong enough, that desire will be the dominant vibration, and it will over-ride any other vibration that you have.

Law | Time | Will |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Cause | Law | Punishment |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

And where is yet farther proof of the truth of the theory of descent to be found?

Law | Nothing |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

We need but mention the mighty influence which irrational dogmas still exercise on the elementary education of our youth, we need but mention that the state yet permits the existence of cloisters and of celibacy, the most immoral and baneful ordinance of the “only-saving” church; we need but mention that the civilized state yet divides the most important parts of the civil year in accordance with church festivals; that in many countries it allows the public order to be disturbed by church processions, and so on.

Evolution | Law | Following |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Law | Thought | Think | Thought |

Estonian Proverbs

The man who can sharpen hundred stakes between two meals, can take a wife.

Law |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The main event has never been the manifestation, the main event has always been the way you feel, moment by moment, because that's what life is.

Law |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

In love the other men, the man expands his thought.

Law |

Eudora Welty

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Art | Comfort | Art |

Eugene Peterson

I haven't made that decision. But I would certainly welcome the superintendent of schools, instead of pointing the finger at everybody and everything, taking some accountability of what is happening on his watch.

Law | Will |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ...Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Age | Duty | History | War | World |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.