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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William Shakespeare

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, a good mouth-filling oath.

Counsel | Faith | Heaven | Thought | Will | Counsel | Thought |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

Faith | God | Nature | Need | Will | God |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the pleasant orchard closes, `God bless all our gains', say we; but `May God bless all our losses' better suits with our degree.

Age | Charity | Doubt | Faith |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The search for satisfaction to Aahdf to protection and interest Almatatin, but a generous gift to the world. Saved one of every misery, Azaha of the way. To dream an obstacle, not in front of himself, but also in front of others. Only then will be free to serve the people and enjoy Bhbhm.

Belief | Destiny | Faith | God | Hope | Humanity | Life | Life | Meaning | Nature | Search | Will | God |

Elizabeth Gilbert

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Faith | Love | Sound |

Elizabeth Gilbert

When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping Tutti.

Duty | Life | Life | Sense | Happiness |

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery. This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated staue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. Prayer is a realtionship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm ainming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

Belief | Books | Care | Decision | Destiny | Divinity | Faith | God | Life | Life | Meaning | Nature | Reason | Religion | Scripture | Will | God |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, since every victim-carrion turns to use, and drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, against each piled injustice.

Duty | Life | Life | Love | Man | Service | Sound | World |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In our age faith and charity are found, but they are found apart. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something.

Desire | Faith |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Dost thou think me so unlike myself and unmindful of my royal majesty that I would prefer my servant whom I myself have raised, before the greatest prince of Christendom...?

Faith | Silence |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art a guest for queens to social pageantries, with gages from a hundred brighter eyes than tears even can make mine... what hast though to do with looking from the lattice-lights at me, a poor, tired, wandering singer.

Angels | Day | Faith | Heaven | Past |

Ella Grasso, born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi

One of the biggest problems is that women don't want to run for office ... Women who run for office win at the same rate as men. ... I have found that when I ask people to run I have to ask their friends first. They have to get seven or eight requests before they even consider it.

Enough | Faith |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Cause | Desire | Duty | God | Nothing | Prosperity | God |

Emil M. Cioran

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Duty | Love |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Faith | Little |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Duty | Liberty | Observation |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Man knows that love is, but not what it is.

Faith | God | God |

Emil M. Cioran

To foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Decision | Faith | Man | Protest |

Emile Zola

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy... It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Crime | Duty | History | Insult | Justice | Society | Suffering | Truth | Insult | Society |

Emile Zola

At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants.

Faith | Good |