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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Arthur Rimbaud, fully Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

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Action | Character | Morality | Weakness |

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is only when we haggle with conscience that we have recourse to the subtleties of argument.

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Argument | Character | Conscience |

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Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

Minds broken in two. Hearts broken. Conscience torn from acts. A culture split in a thousand pieces. That is segregation.

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Character | Conscience | Culture |

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Logan Pearsall Smith

We grow with the years more fragile in body but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

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Body | Character | Conscience |

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Richard Sibbes (or Sibbs)

We can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience which is the ground of joy.

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Character | Conscience | Good | Joy | Nothing |

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George Sewell

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

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Character | Conscience | Fear | Guilt |

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Marjorie Bowen, pen names included Joseph Shearing, George R. Preddy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell, Pseudonym of Mrs Garbrielle Margaret Vere Long née Campbell

The wages of sin and the reward of virtue are not so different.

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Character | Reward | Sin | Virtue | Virtue |

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Sydney Smith

It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.

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Character | Men | Oblivion | Weakness | Wisdom | Old | Truths |

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Samuel Smiles

Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.

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Character | Conscience | Good | Human nature | Individual | Men | Nature | Order | Power | Qualities | Rule | Society | World |

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Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.

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Character | Strength | Weakness |

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Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

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Character | Conscience | Deeds | Good | Heart | Pain | Deeds |

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Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne

Trust that man is nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

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Character | Conscience | Man | Nothing | Trust |

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Thomas De Witt Talmage

No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defense; defense, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.

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Boasting | Character | Conscience | Custom | Defense | Evil | Indulgence | Man | Mind | Practice |

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