Great Throughts Treasury

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

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Character | Heaven | Man | Men | Music | Play | Soul | Virtue | Virtue |

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William Ellery Channing

The great duty of God’s children is to love one another. This duty on earth takes the name and form of the law of humanity. We are to recognize all men as brethren, no matter where born, or under what sky, or institution or religion they may live. Every man belongs to the race, and owes a duty to mankind... Men cannot, by combining themselves into narrower or larger societies, sever the sacred, blessed bond which joins them to their kind... The law of humanity must reign; over the assertion of all human rights.

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Assertion | Character | Children | Duty | Earth | God | Humanity | Law | Love | Man | Mankind | Men | Race | Religion | Rights | Sacred | Blessed |

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William Ellery Channing

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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Aspiration | Character | Faith | Love |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

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Character | Deeds | Love | Man | Patience | Sacred | Soul |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul - to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

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Character | God | Integrity | Peace | Sacrifice | Shame | Soul |

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Samuel Butler

Night is the Sabbath of mankind, to rest the body and the mind.

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Body | Character | Mankind | Mind | Rest | Sabbath |

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Jean-Pierre Camus de Pontcarré

The only perfection I know of is a hearty love of god, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself. Charity is the only virtue which rightly unites us to God and man. Such union is our final aim and end, and all the rest is mere delusion.

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Character | Charity | Delusion | God | Love | Man | Perfection | Rest | Virtue | Virtue | God |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

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Character | Revenge | Soul | Forgive |

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Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

Constantly giving to someone will increase your love for that person.

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Character | Giving | Love | Will |

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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Character | Children | Duty | Eternal | Little | Love | Marriage |

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Hans Denk

All externals must yield to love; for they are for the sake of love, and not love for them.

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Character | Love |

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

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Character | Love | Order |

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion: a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

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Character | Discernment | Knowledge | Soul |

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