Great Throughts Treasury

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Stanislaw I, born Stanisław Leszczyński, also spelled Stanislaus NULL

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of the baseness the other is accused of.

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Baseness | Character | Self |

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John Thompson, published under pseudonymn Bysshe Vanolis

Without humility you will not learn even the simplest lessons of life.

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Character | Humility | Life | Life | Will | Learn |

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To miss the joy is to miss all.

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Character | Joy |

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Jeremy Taylor

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

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Character | Experience | Fear | Humility | Learning | Little | Men | Modesty | Teach |

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Vaga Saneyi Samhita Upanishad

When to a man who understands, the self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?

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Character | Man | Self | Sorrow | Unity | Trouble |

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George Matthew Adams

Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

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Body | Mind | Peace | Spirit | Unity | Wisdom |

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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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Angels | Humility | Men | Pride | Wisdom |

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Yitzchok Waldshein

To have peace of mind it is important that the place where you live and work is organized and clean.

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Character | Important | Mind | Peace | Work |

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Abu Yazid Tayfur ibn 'Isa ibn Surushan al-Bismtami

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Whoever knows God through God becomes alive, and whoever knows God through self becomes dead.

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Forgetfulness | God | Self | Wisdom | God |

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Paul Tyner

For this cause he came into the world; that he might be a witness to the truth; a living, unimpeachable witness of the truth that shall make us free - the truth of man’s religion (reunion) with God, through absolute spiritual self consciousness - with God - with the Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient Source and Fountain of Life, “in whom we live and move and have our being,” without whom we are not!

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Absolute | Cause | Character | Consciousness | Eternal | God | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Self | Truth | Witness | World | God |

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