Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

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 |

James Waddel Alexander

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

Idleness | Land | Repose | Strength | Study | Wisdom |

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 |

Ani NULL

My soul is God, my soul is eternity.

Eternity | God | Soul | Wisdom |

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

There is strength of quiet endurance as significant courage as the most daring fears of prowess.

Character | Courage | Daring | Endurance | Prowess | Quiet | Strength |

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 |

Alfred "Trader Horn" Aloysius, born Alfred Aloysius Smith

Man is born for action; he ought to do something. Work, at each step, awakens a sleeping force and roots our error. Who does nothing, knows nothing. Rise! to work! If thy knowledge is real, employ it; wrestle with nature; test the strength of thy theories; see if they will support the trial; act!

Action | Error | Force | Knowledge | Man | Nature | Nothing | Strength | Theories | Will | Wisdom | Work |

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 |

Eugene Ware, aka "Ironquill", fully Captain Eugene Fitch Ware

The charm of the deed is its doing; the charm of a life is its living; the soul of the thing is the thought.

Character | Life | Life | Soul | Thought |

Hillel Witkind

Complete happiness will not come to one’s soul through gratifying physical desires. The only way to achieve perfect happiness is to find spiritual fulfillment which leads to being satisfied with one’s material situation.

Character | Fulfillment | Soul | Will | Happiness |