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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Guru Nanak

The holy man is the true lover by whom the Truly Beloved is found. Man is then happy night and day, and naturally absorbed in God. The holy man may laugh; the holy man may weep. Whatever he does, is in God’s service.

Day | God | Happy | Man | Service |

Swedish Proverbs

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Abba Pimen

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.

Heart | Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Truth and morning become light with time.

Light | Time | Truth |

John Ray or Wray

The day has eyes, the night has ears.

Day |

David Schmidtz

People who know they are terminally ill often seem to live more meaningfully. Though dying, they somehow are more alive. They cherish each morning and are vividly aware of each day’s passing. They see despair as a self-indulgent waste, and they have no time to waste.

Day | Despair | People | Self | Time | Waste |

Finnish Proverbs

No night is so long that day will not follow it.

Day | Will |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Birth | Day | Death | Life | Life | Little | Rest | Youth |

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Man | Money | Success | Wants |

Chief Seattle, also spelled Seathl

Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Waste | Will |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

He who hears the truth in the morning may die in the evening without regret.

Regret | Truth |

Christopher Fry

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day, once in a great many.

Day | Memory |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew on a Missouri cornfield in July.

Consciousness | Self |