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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Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

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Character | Compassion | Heart | Mind | Persuasion |

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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

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Character | Heart | Man |

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Immanual Hermann Fichte

Our system of thought and opinion, is often the only history of our heart. Men do not so much will according to their reason, as reason according to their will.

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Character | Heart | History | Men | Opinion | Reason | System | Thought | Will | Thought |

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Henry Fielding

There are two considerations which always embitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

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Character | Heart | Man | Riches |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.

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Character | Heart |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

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Character | Cheerfulness | Heart | Honor | Mirth | Time |

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John Flavel

It is a dangerous crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.

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Paul Fleming, also spelled Flemming

Much has been said about the relative happiness; but write it on your heart that happiness is the cheapest thing in the world - when we buy it for someone else.

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Character | Heart | World | Happiness |

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John Cunningham Geikie

He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity. An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trust him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.

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Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Equanimity | God | Heart | Life | Life | Little | Temper | Trust | Wants | God |

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Charles W. Garman

Whatever may be true of men’s creed, nothing is clearer than the fact that the personality and the sovereignty of God are not a large factor in the practical life and thought of our age.

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Age | Character | Creed | God | Life | Life | Men | Nothing | Personality | Thought | God | Thought |

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Jerome P. Fleishman

Do you know what real poverty is? It is never to have a big thought or a generous impulse.

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Character | Impulse | Poverty | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Our best hope for the future is that the intellect - the scientific spirit, reason - should in time establish a dictatorship over the human mind. The very nature of reason is a guarantee that it would not fail to concede to human emotions, and to all that is determined by them, the position to which they are entitled. But the common pressure exercised by such a domination of reason would prove to be the strongest unifying force among men, and would prepare the way for further unifications. Whatever, like the ban laid upon thought by religion, opposes such a development is a danger for the future of mankind.

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Character | Danger | Emotions | Force | Future | Guarantee | Hope | Mankind | Men | Mind | Nature | Position | Reason | Religion | Spirit | Thought | Time | Danger | Intellect | Thought |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

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Action | Capacity | Character | Thought | Thought |

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John P. Grier

The biggest gap in the world is the gap between the justice of a cause and the motives of the people pushing it.

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Cause | Character | Justice | Motives | People | World |

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Robert Hall

Let your words be few and digested, it is a shame for the tongue to cry the heart mercy, much more to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of others’ ears.

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Character | Heart | Mercy | Pardon | Shame | Words |

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Heinrich Heine

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

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Character | Heart | Reason |

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Aaron Hill

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature’s mark to know an honest heart by.

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Character | Heart | Nature | Tears | Virtue | Virtue |

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Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.

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Character | Heart | Mind | Will | World |

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Josiah Gilbert Holland, also Joshua Gilbert Holland

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

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Character | Heart |

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