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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John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

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Character | Life | Life | Man |

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Jeremy Collier

By reading a man does, as it we, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages.

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Character | Life | Life | Man | Past | Reading |

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Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

No man succeeds in everything he undertakes. In that sense we are all failures. The great point is not to fail in ordering and sustaining the effort of our life.

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Character | Effort | Life | Life | Man | Sense |

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Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accidents than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Character | Events | History | Reason | Wisdom |

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Richard Cecil

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.

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Aims | Appearance | Character | Folly | Hypocrisy | Man |

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William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

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Character | Conscience | Teach | Work |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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Character | God | Grace | People | Sadness | God | Think |

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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Character | Man |

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W. G. Cole

The wise man loves to believe nothing; the simple man to believe all things. The latter is credulous to others, the former to himself.

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Character | Man | Nothing | Wisdom | Wise |

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Marion LeRoy Burton

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

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Character | Guidance | Influence | Quiet |

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William Camden

Fair words hurt not the mouth.

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Character | Words |

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William Ellery Channing

Home is the chief school of human virtues.

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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, fully Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, conte di Cavour

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

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Character | Man | Men | Will |

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Ilka Chase

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

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Character | People |

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