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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Opinion | Sin | Forgive |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all one pattern. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Lesson | Men | Opinion | Sin | Forgive | Learn |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest and supreme and the most comprehensive community is that which is composed of men and God, and that from God have descended the seeds not only to my father and grandfather, but to all beings which are generated on the earth and are produced... why should not such a man call himself a citizen of the world?

Earth | Father | God | Man | Men | World | God |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is a difference of opinion.

Opinion | Sin | Forgive |

Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Credit | Father | Life | Life | Mother |

Walter Raleigh, fully Sir Walter Raleigh

Eat slowly; only men in rags and gluttons old in sin mistake themselves for carpet-bags and tumble victuals in.

Men | Mistake | Sin | Old |

Sidney Hook

One man’s sin may be another man’s duty and a third man’s bliss… A democratic community cannot recognize the category of sin, legislate against it and punish those for whom the proscribed action is not sinful.

Action | Duty | Man | Sin |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.

Father | Mother | Child |

Zohar or The Zohar, literally "Splendor or Radiance" NULL

A sin leaves a mark; repeated, it deepens the mark; when committed a third time, the mark becomes a stain.

Sin | Time |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

A big sin is forgotten, a little sin is not.

Little | Sin |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

Three things are weakening: fear, sin and travel.

Fear | Sin |

Thomas Fuller

Though “the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of the assemblies,” yet sure their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and, swore himself whist he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.

Example | Father | Good | Harm | Wise | Words |

Thomas Fuller

Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than the good by his correction.

Example | Father | Good | Harm | Wise | Words |

William Shakespeare

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Mercy | Nothing | Sin |

Washington Gladden

My child can be no more guilty or deserving of punishment for my sin than he can see with my eyes and feel with my nerves.

Punishment | Sin | Child | Guilty |

William Shakespeare

It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, but greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

Sin |