Great Throughts Treasury

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Francis Quarles

A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart.

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Character | Heart | Man | Wise |

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Myrtle Reed

No matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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Helen Steiner Rice

It’s not the things that can be bought that are life’s richest treasures. It’s priceless little courtesies that money cannot measure. Each little act of graciousness or kindly little favor that fills the heart with gratitude leaves memories to savor.

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Character | Gratitude | Heart | Life | Life | Little | Money |

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Francis Quarles

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

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Character | Heart | World |

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government, she is in the heart of the free man, he bears her with him everywhere.

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Character | Government | Heart | Liberty | Man |

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Sholem Aleichem, pen name of Sholem Yakovf Rabinowitz or Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

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Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind, but we are so foolishly indifferent that we are never in earnest in the matter of kindness. We want to topple a great load over, and yet will not avail ourselves of a lever which would multiply our power a hundredfold.

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Character | Heart | Kindness | Man | Mankind | Power | Will | World |

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Samuel Smiles

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

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Admiration | Character | Genius | Heart | Life | Life | Power | Respect |

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Charles Simmons

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

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Character | Heart | Understanding |

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Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

The heart is never neutral.

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Character | Heart |

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Herbert Schiffer

Among the qualities of mind and heart which conduce to worldly success, there is one, the importance of which is more real, and which is generally underrated in our day... It is courtesy.

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Character | Courtesy | Day | Heart | Mind | Qualities | Success |

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Robert Southey

Of all the sights which can soften and humanize the heart of men, there is none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children, enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural portion.

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Character | Children | Heart | Men | Happiness |

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Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne

Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought in to the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.

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Character | Heart | Power | Story | Wisdom |

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To be rich in admiration and free from envy; to rejoice greatly in the good of others; to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence; these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy and without which money can buy nothing. He who has such a treasury of riches, being happy and valiant himself, in his own nature, will enjoy the universe as if it were his own estate; and help the man to whom he lends a hand to enjoy it with him.

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Absence | Admiration | Character | Envy | Fortune | Generosity | Good | Happy | Heart | Love | Man | Money | Nature | Nothing | Riches | Universe | Will |

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