Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

My son! More likely to love your friends, and abhor your enemies: but beware that transcends borders and Taathor.

Heart |

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Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Heart | Praise | Shame |

Euripedes NULL

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Earth |

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Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Heart | Object |

Euripedes NULL

Young people, the most beautiful jewels in wealth is also the most beautiful in the case of want and woe!

Blessings | Earth | Humanity | Mortal |

Euripedes NULL

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wise | Think |

Euripedes NULL

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Earth |

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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Heart |

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Old menÂ’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Heart | Love |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search.

Beauty | Change | Heart | Sadness | Beauty |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Change | Heart | Sadness |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Curiosity | Heart | Love | Search |

Evelyn Underhill

When you let intuition have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

Charity | Desire | Events | God | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Reality | God |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Heart |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Day | Heart | Music | Present |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free.

Earth | Life | Life | Mind | Unique | Youth | Youth |

Faye Wattleton

Choosing a career in nursing was perhaps my most important professional decision. Had I not had direct experiences with patients and gained an understanding of what goes on in women's lives, I would not have had the determination and commitment to non-compromise on the gains that women have made with respect to reproductive choice.

Earth | Will |

Feisal Abdul Rauf

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

Argument | Earth | Faith | People | Religion | Tradition | Truth | Wrong |

Ezra Taft Benson

What are these fundamental principles which have allowed the United States to progress so rapidly and yet remain free? First, a written Constitution clearly defining the limits of government so that government will not become more powerful than the people.

Agony | Earth | Force | Freedom | Government | Harm | Improvement | Individual | People | Power | World | Zeal | Government |