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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Thomas Adams

He that taught them all their tricks kept one to himself.

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.

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Character | Soul | Will | Think |

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Honoré de Balzac

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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Michael Barenbaum

Envy destroys peace of mind and happiness. An envious person’s life is full of suffering and resentment. He is never happy with what he himself has.

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Character | Envy | Happy | Life | Life | Mind | Peace | Resentment | Suffering |

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Henry Adams, aka Henry Brooks Adams

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

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Character | Enough | Little | Youth |

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John Bartlett

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

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Character | Custom | Despot | Feelings | Manners | World |

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Bias NULL

It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of your enemies will probably become your friend.

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Romare Bearden, fully Romate Howard Bearden

Art is the soul of the people.

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Hugh Blair

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

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Character | Discipline | Enjoyment | Fortune | Heart | Knowledge | Mind | Principles |

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Bruce Bliven

Perhaps the most important lesson the world has learned in the past fifty years is that it is not true that "human nature is unchangeable."

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Character | Human nature | Important | Lesson | Nature | Past | World |

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Robert Bly

Having no soul union with other men can be the most damaging wound of all.

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Character | Men | Soul |

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Phillips Brooks

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped an comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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Better | Character | Existence | Good | Man | Woman | World |

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Paul Brunton, born Hermann Hirsch, wrote under various pseudonyms including Brunton Paul, Raphael Meriden and Raphael Delmonte

There is only one Duty. It is to realize the divinity within... our most sacred life purpose, the most honored ground of existence, and everything else must be made to subserve it.

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Character | Divinity | Duty | Existence | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Sacred |

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Sarah T. Bolton, fully Sarah Tittle Barrett Bolton

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

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Character | Habit | Success | Wisdom | Work |

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