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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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Age | Agony | Beauty | Body | Children | Cost | Counsel | Diversity | Energy | Enough | Evil | Genius | Gold | Government | Helpfulness | Individual | Liberty | Life | Life | Men | Model | Riches | Strength | Struggle | Sympathy | System | Will | World | Riches | Government | Counsel | Beauty |

Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Good | Looks | Man | Public |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.,

Imagination | Thought | Thought |

Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

Heaven | Personality |

Tillie Olsen

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Right |

Hugh Blair

We have deprived ourselves of that liberty of transposition in the arrangement of words which the ancient languages enjoyed.

Duty | Gentleness | Nature | Reflection | Sense |

Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins

Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against desire, why not get better at fulfilling desire?

Doubt | Duty | Men |

William Shakespeare

Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.

Appetite | Father | Good | Money | Pardon |

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Man | Men | Time |

William Shakespeare

And where two raging fires meet together; they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. Though little fire grows great with little wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Taming of the Shrew, Act ii, Scene 1

Gentleness | Pity | Will | Forgive |

William Shakespeare

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop.

Good | Privilege |

William Shakespeare

BRUTUS: How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, that now on Pompey's basis lies along, no worthier than the dust! CASSIUS: So oft as that shall be, so often shall the knot of us be called the men that gave their country liberty. Julius Caesar, Act iii, Scene 1

Friend | Gentleness | Love |

William Shakespeare

Black is the badge of hell, the hue of dungeons, and the school of night; and beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.

William Shakespeare

Down on your knees, and thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Cicely Saunders, fully Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

Regard | Obstacle |

Craig Venter, fully John Craig Venter

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

Dalia Mogahed

Muslim women do not regard Islam as an obstacle to their progress; indeed, many may see it as a crucial component of that progress.

Appreciation | Cause | Diversity | Justice | Law | Question | Tradition | Understanding | Appreciation |

William Howells, fully William Dean Howells, aka The Dean of American Letters

If I were authorized to address any word directly to our novelists, I should say: Do not trouble yourself about standards or ideals, but try to be faithful and natural.

Heart | Men | Nothing | Qualities | Trust |

William Howells, fully William Dean Howells, aka The Dean of American Letters

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

Inequality | Men | Motives | World |

William (Morley Punshon) McFee

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

Men | Warning |