Great Throughts Treasury

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Talbot Wilson Chambers

As the bosom of earth blooms again and again, having buried out of sight the dead leaves of autumn, and loosed the frosty bands of winter; so does the heart, in spite of all that melancholy poets write, feel many renewed springs and summers. It is a beautiful and a blessed world we live in, and whilst that life lasts, to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin.

Earth | Enjoyment | Life | Life | Melancholy | Sin | Wisdom | World | Blessed |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusions.

Desire | Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The only popularity worth aspiring after, is the popularity of the heart - the popularity that is won in the bosom of families, and at the side of death beds.

Death | Heart | Popularity | Wisdom | Worth |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart felt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Heart | Poetry | Truth | Wisdom |

Geoffrey Chaucer

My mind to me a kingdom is; such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss that earth affords.

Earth | Mind | Present | Wisdom |

Chilon of Lacedemon NULL

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal.

Earth | Famous | Men | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Robert Collier

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Earth | Nothing | Wisdom |

Charles Darwin, fully Charles Robert Darwin

There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny.

Earth | Man | Organic | Rule | Wisdom |

Macdonald Clarke

The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven.

Heart | Heaven | Mind | Quiet | Rest | Wisdom |

Susan Coleridge

Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, and spite of old sorrow, and older sinning, and troubles forecasted, and possible pain, take heart with the day, and begin again.

Beginning | Day | Heart | Pain | Sorrow | Soul | Troubles | Wisdom | Old |

Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Love | Man | Trust | Wisdom | Woe |

Lydia Avery Coonley Ward

Why fear tomorrow, timid heart? Why tread the future's way? We only need to do our part Today, dear child, today. The past is written! Close the book On pages sad and gay; Within the future do not look, But live today-today. "Tis this one hour that God has given; His now we must obey; And it will make our earth his heaven To live today-today.

Earth | Fear | Future | God | Heart | Heaven | Need | Past | Will | Wisdom | God |

Miles Coverdale, also Myles Coverdale

A quiet heart is a continual feast.

Heart | Quiet | Wisdom |