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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Jeremy Taylor

Right intention is to the actions of a man what the soul is to the body, or the root to the tree.

Body | Character | Intention | Man | Right | Soul |

John P. Webster

The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Action | Body | Character | Man | Soul | Spirit |

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Character | Heart | Prejudice |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Grand is the seen, the light, to me - grand are the sky and stars, grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space, but grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those, lighting the slight, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea, (what were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?) More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul! More multiform far - more lasting thou than they.

Character | Earth | Light | Soul | Space | Time |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

The soul is of itself, all verges to it, all has reference to what ensures, all that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence, not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death, but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is just as much as the direct, the spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.

Body | Character | Day | Death | Man | Soul | Spirit | Woman |

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life.

Day | Life | Life | Music | Soul | Wisdom |

William Whewell

A man really looking onward to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an ennobled attitude.

Character | Life | Life | Man | Soul |

William Wordsworth

The eye - it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where ’er they be, against or with our will.

Character | Will |

Ani NULL

My soul is God, my soul is eternity.

Eternity | God | Soul | Wisdom |

Edwin Percy Whipple

There seem to be some persons, the favorites of fortune and darlings of nature, who are born cheerful. “A star danced” at their birth. It is no superficial visibility, but a bountiful and beneficent soul that sparkles in their eyes and smiles on their lips. Their inborn geniality amounts to genius, the rare and difficult genius which creates sweet and wholesome character, and radiates cheer.

Birth | Character | Fortune | Geniality | Genius | Nature | Soul |

Apocrypha NULL

Glorify your soul in humility.

Humility | Soul | Wisdom |

Berthold Auerbach

Music is a universal language, and needs not be translated. With it soul speaks to soul.

Language | Music | Soul | Wisdom |

Vaga Saneyi Samhita Upanishad

Strange and hard that paradox true I give, objects gross and the unseen soul are one.

Character | Paradox | Soul |