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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; we sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

Life | Life |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

The right to change the government by the ballot box and not the barrel of a gun; perhaps the best definition of a democracy.

Individual | Life | Life | Peace | Will |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Dependence | Life | Life | Theories |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Care | Life | Life |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- to waste on one the riches of her soul, who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Life | Life | Love | Time | Will | Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Life | Life |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I did hope tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Family | Life | Life | Service |

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.

Life | Life |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

Life | Life |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Life | Life | Men |

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 |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The longer I live and the more I see of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, the stronger this truth comes home to me: that the Universe rests on the shoulders of love; a love so limitless, deep, and broad, that men have renamed it and called it--God.

Day | Life | Life | Love |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Life | Life | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed-did some attributes of leadership are universal and are Often about finding ways of Encouraging people to combine Their efforts, Their talents, Their insights, Their enthusiasm and Their inspiration to work together.

Heart | Life | Life | Sincerity |

Ella Grasso, born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process we must do something about it.

Life | Life |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Life | Life |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Life | Life | Little | Passion | Pity | Time | Tragedy | Youth | Youth |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Life | Life |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

Life | Life | Religion |

Emil M. Cioran

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Death | Dread | Life | Life |