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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John P. Webster

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.

Character | Life | Life | Man |

A. H. Weiler

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Character | Man | Nothing |

John Wicker

The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.

Character | Life | Life | Man | Money | Need | Success | Wealth |

Edward Young

The man that makes a character makes foes.

Character | Man |

Stewart Udall, Fully Stewart Lee Udall

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

Character | Man | Qualities |

Lew Wallace

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.

Character | Love | Man | Self | Self-love |

Basil Alfred Yeaxlee

Freedom springs from within, whether in a man or in a people. To remove disabilities and confer the franchise is not enough. Men must be enabled to grow if they are to exercise their rights with dignity and effect. For this reason the widening of the franchise in democratic countries has always been accompanied or followed by the development of popular education.

Character | Dignity | Education | Enough | Freedom | Man | Men | People | Reason | Rights | Wisdom |

Amen-em-apt NULL

The tongue of a man is the rudder of a ship, but the Universal Lord is its pilot.

Lord | Man | Wisdom |

Erich Auerbach

There is no Fate... Man is the creator of his destiny.

Destiny | Fate | Man | Wisdom |

Paul Tyner

The absolute demonstration of man’s mastery of fate and command of all condition - the victory of man - all men in this racial man, this elder brother of mankind in his triumph over sin, fear and death! But one thing had remained in my mind as necessary to prove to the mass of men to-day man’s absolute supremacy over death in all its forms as an attribute of his oneness with God, with Eternal Life, Perfect Love, Perfect Justice, Omniscience and Omnipotence.

Absolute | Character | Day | Death | Eternal | Fate | Fear | God | Justice | Life | Life | Love | Man | Mankind | Men | Mind | Omnipotence | Omniscience | Oneness | Sin | Fate |

Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson

Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up eas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of the mind. It adds stature to life.

Art | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Wisdom | Art |

Veda NULL

A man who is born blind will never know the meaning of darkness.

Character | Darkness | Man | Meaning | Will |

Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL

Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Cause | Character | Fate | Fear | Greed | Happy | Hell | Man |

John Weiss

The laughter of man is the contentment of God.

Character | Contentment | God | Laughter | Man |

Richard Whately

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Character | Good | Man |