Great Throughts Treasury

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Harold Cooke Phillips

We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

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Character | Need | Prayer | Self | Self-sufficiency | Think |

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Alexander Pope

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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Beauty | Character | Nature |

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Joseph Parker

No virtue fades out of mankind. No over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

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Character | Despair | Experience | Mankind | Virtue | Virtue |

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Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: man never is, but always to be blest: the soul, uneasy and confin’d from home, rests and expatiates n a life to come.

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Character | Eternal | Hope | Life | Life | Man | Soul |

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Tillie Olsen

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, responsible.

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Character | Means | Relationship |

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Alexander Pope

What thin partitions sense from thought divide.

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Character | Sense | Thought | Thought |

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Nisargadatta Maharaj, fully Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli

By watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

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Acceptance | Attention | Awareness | Character | Consciousness | Freedom | Intelligence | Intention | Life | Life | Mind | Mother | Nature | Understanding | Work | Understand |

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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Nothing is better than to search for the true God, even if the discovery of Him eludes human capacity, since the very wish to learn, if earnestly entertained, produces untold joys and pleasures.

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Better | Capacity | Character | Discovery | God | Nothing | Search | Discovery |

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Leon Roth

Moral action is the meeting-place between the human and divine.

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Action | Character |

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James Thomas Rapier

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

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Character | Desire | Heart | Victim |

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