Great Throughts Treasury

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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Little by little, step by step, see what happens to you as you deliberately abandon your rage and hostility.

Change | Feelings | Man | Mercy | Will | Learn |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

We must expose ourselves fully to life's experiences. Nothing is discovered in isolation, any more than a rainbow is discovered in a closet. To harmonize with life we must be with it altogether, without resistance, with no concern for what it may bring us.

Feelings |

Vicki Robin

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

Blame | Fault | Feelings | Little | Past | Race | Right | Shame | Story | Fault |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state; that is where we can destroy it.

Change | Feelings | Man | Mercy | People | Will | Learn |

Victor Hugo

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Earth | Eternal | Future | Grave | Reflection | Soul | Sound | Waste | Will | Work | Writing |

Victor Hugo

Suddenly finding such a secret in the midst of one's happiness is like the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves.

Darkness | Law | Men | System | Waste |

Tryon Edwards

It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.

Good | Happy | Mind | Waste |

Tryon Edwards

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Feelings | Judgment |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

Wars might never occur, nevertheless they are exercised in military tactics and in hunting, lest perchance they should become effeminate and unprepared for any emergency.

Life | Life | Men | Race | Waste |

Thomas Love Peacock

The whole party followed, with the exception of Scythrop, who threw himself into his arm-chair, crossed his left foot over his right knee, placed the hollow of his left hand on the interior ancle of his left leg, rested his right elbow on the elbow of the chair, placed the ball of his right thumb against his right temple, curved the forefinger along the upper part of his forehead, rested the point of the middle finger on the bridge of his nose, and the points of the two others on the lower part of the palm, fixed his eyes intently on the veins in the back of his left hand, and sat in this position like the immoveable Theseus, who, as is well known to many who have not been at college, and to some few who have, sedet, oeternumque sedebit. We hope the admirers of the minitiae in poetry and romance will appreciate this accurate description of a pensive attitude.

Plenty | Waste |

Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

But such consumption is not consistent with the actual habits of the generality of capitalists.The great object of their lives is to save a fortune, both because it is their duty to make a provision for their families, and because they cannot spend an income with so much comfort to themselves, while they are obliged perhaps to attend a counting house for seven or eight hours a day...There must therefore be a considerable class of persons who have both the will and power to consume more material wealth then they produce, or the mercantile classes could not continue profitably to produce so much more than they consume.

Waste |

Thomas Love Peacock

We there, in strife bewild’ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in: We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen; The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen.

Feelings | Man | Woman |

Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labor lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

Habit | Life | Life | Power | Struggle | Waste |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Age | Counsel | Day | Feelings | God | Government | Heart | Ideals | Justice | Knowledge | Mercy | Need | Opportunity | Politics | Right | Search | Time | Will | Government | Counsel | God | Understand |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Feelings | Think |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

You have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

Existence | Feelings | Ignorance | Mercy | Passion | Time | Waste |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Feelings | Mercy | Time | Waste |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Existence | Feelings | Happy | Ignorance | Mercy | Time | Waste |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Existence | Feelings | Happy | Ignorance | Mercy | Time | Waste |

Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Life | Life | Organic | Thought | Waste | Thought |