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 Armstrong

Know then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind, supports the body too; hence, the most vital movement mortals feel is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.

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Body | Character | Hope | Mind | Soul |

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H. W. Arnold

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

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Character | Enthusiasm | Man | Success | Will | Wisdom | World |

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Jacob Bohme, or Jacob Behmen or Jakob Böhme

Spiritual knowledge cannot be communicated from one intellect to another, but must be sought for in the spirit of God.

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Character | God | Knowledge | Spirit | Intellect |

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Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat, Abu Ismaïl Abdullah ibn Abi-Mansour Mohammad or Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat

Desire for knowledge is the path of honor: desire for wealth is the path of dishonor. Wealth is the chain that slaves wear; knowledge the kingly crown.

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Character | Desire | Dishonor | Honor | Knowledge | Wealth |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?

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Character | Life | Life |

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Arthur Aughey

A firm faith is the best theology; a good life is the best philosophy, a clear conscience the best law; honesty the best policy, and temperance the best physic.

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Character | Conscience | Faith | Good | Honesty | Law | Life | Life | Philosophy | Policy | Theology |

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H. B.

I live in the world, but I seem to myself not of it!.. Natural phenomena are but the shadows of the spirit form which they spring, as the human face changes under the influence of love, hatred or fear... When, O when, shall I be able to reveal its poetry? I see everywhere and in ever object unceasing motion, and in that motion a creative force forever and forever repeating and re-repeating the same simple process as to infinity. Through all nature the grand rhythms roll and heaven and earth are filled with the melody. Men are but boys chasing shadows. The spiritual significance of the world none seem to see - the infinite simplicity of its process are none care to understand.

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Boys | Care | Character | Earth | Fear | Force | Heaven | Influence | Love | Melody | Men | Nature | Object | Phenomena | Poetry | Simplicity | Spirit | World |

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Roy I. Bagley

Right thinking is a prerequisite to right living... In truth the destiny of any life is determined by what fills that mind.

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Character | Destiny | Life | Life | Mind | Right | Thinking | Truth | Wisdom |

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Honoré de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one.

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Character | Love | Wisdom |

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Djuna Chappell Barnes

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

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Character | Criticism | Love |

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Charles Francis Adams II

More than all, and above all Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

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Character | Control | Example | Influence | Men | Present | Self |

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Amen-em-apt NULL

Better is the praise and love of men than riches in the storehouse.

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Better | Character | Love | Men | Praise | Riches | Wisdom | Riches |

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Richard Alleine

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.

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Character | Conscience | Heart | Tenderness | Will |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Once thing here is worth a great deal, to pass thy life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men.

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Character | Justice | Life | Life | Men | Truth | Worth |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgment. And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and a vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.

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Body | Character | Fame | Fortune | Judgment | Life | Life | Oblivion | Perception | Soul | Time |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

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Character | Revenge |

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