Great Throughts Treasury

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Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew on a Missouri cornfield in July.

Consciousness | Self |

Franz Kafka

A young man who doesn’t believe in tomorrow morning is a traitor to himself.

Man | Tomorrow | Traitor |

George Herbert

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do; dress and undress thy soul; mark the decay or growth of it. If with thy watch that too be down, then wind up both. Since thou shalt be most surely judged, make thine accounts agree.

Day | Growth | Soul |

Henry Ward Beecher

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Day |

Henry Ward Beecher

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things.

Dawn | Events | Noise | Silence | World |

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they lie behind us; at noon, we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad and deepening before us.

Body | Life | Life | Mind |

Henry Ward Beecher

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Eternal | God | Joy | Life | Life | Nothing | Prosperity | Sorrow | God |

Isaac Watts

If you only make your addresses to God in the morning and evening, and forget him all the day, your hearts will grow indifferent in worship.

Day | God | Will | Worship | God |

John Milton

The childhood shows the man, as the morning shows the day.

Childhood | Day | Man |

John Foster, fully John Watson Foster

What a superlatively grand and consoling idea is that of death! Without this radiant idea - this delightful morning star, indicting that the luminary of eternity is going to rise, life would, to my view, darken into midnight melancholy. The expectation of living here, and living thus always, would be indeed a prospect of overwhelming despair. But thanks to that fatal decree that dooms us to die; thanks to that gospel which opens the vision of an endless life; and thanks above all to that Saviour friend who has promised to conduct the faithful through the sacred trance of death, into scenes of Paradise and everlasting delight.

Conduct | Death | Despair | Eternity | Expectation | Friend | Life | Life | Melancholy | Paradise | Sacred | Vision | Expectation |

Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Good | Hero | Indigestion | Light | Man |

Norman Vincent Peale

“Every morning of the world I give thanks for all the wonderful things in my life,” declared a young man enthusiastically. “And do you know something? It’s strange indeed, but the more I give thanks, the more I have reason to be thankful. For, you see, blessings just pile up on me one after another like nobody’s business”... The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for... The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity... Remember that praise and thanksgiving are the most powerful prayers of all.

Art | Blessings | Business | Creativity | Gratitude | Life | Life | Man | Practice | Praise | Reason | Thankfulness | World | Art |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Genius | Happy | Life | Life | Love | Manners |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Antiquity | Nature |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the happy ways of doing things. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Happy | Manners |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunning she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch; of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purpose with the bloom of youth and joy.

Antiquity | Cunning | Day | Joy | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Youth | Youth |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influences of character is in its infancy.

Character | Civilization | Infancy | Society | Society | Think |

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ; if starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Office |