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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William Blake

His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penn’d, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang-noose at the end.

Earth | Eternal | Fear | Gold | Grief | Guests | Heart | Industry | Infancy | Joy | Land | Little | Love | Man | Men | Nothing | Tears | Terror | Woman |

William Blake

For where'er the sun does shine, and where'er the rain does fall, babe can never hunger there, nor poverty the mind appall.

Gold |

William Blake

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

Gold | Little | World |

William Cowper

Forgive the song that falls so low, beneath the gratitude I owe.

Gold | Men | Price |

Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

Body | Day | Gold | Hate | Inevitable | Law | Love | Revelation | World |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand… Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, but I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, he ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Deeds | Gold | Men | Woman | Deeds | Child |

Wang Wei, aka Wang Youcheng

Its massive height near the City of Heaven joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea. Clouds, when I look back, close behind me, mists, when I enter them, are gone. A central peak divides the wilds and weather into many valleys... Needing a place to spend the night, I call to a wood-cutter over the river.

Day | Devotion | Doubt | Gold | Happy | Life | Life | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Will | Wise |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

Choice | Gold | Will | Worth | Value |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Belief | Gold | Past | Price | Truth | Will |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be mis-appraised.

Fear | Gold | Good | Hope | People | Time | Afraid |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

Fear | Gold | Money | Right | Will |

Welsh Proverbs

Better a good shilling than a dud sovereign.

Friend | Gold |

Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head.

Gold |

W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Gold |

W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

It is a sure criterion of the civilization of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

Day | Gold | Industry | Nothing |

Wallace Stevens

A feme may come, leaf-green, whose coming may give revel beyond revelries of sleep, yes, and the blackbird spread its tail, so that the sun may speckle, while it creaks hail.

Dirty | Gold |

Wallace Stevens

We do not prove the existence of the poem. It is something seen and known in lesser poems. It is the huge, high harmony that sounds a little and a little, suddenly, by means of a separate sense. It is and it is not and, therefore, is.

Gold | Man | Means |

Wallace Stevens

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Gold |

Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

Gold | Public | Purpose | Purpose | World | Think |

Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

Better | Bourgeoisie | Brutality | Church | Gold | Government | Haste | Lesson | Means | Order | People | Principles | Property | Sense | Struggle | Sympathy | Wealth | Will | Work | Government | Think |