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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Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Freedom is spiritual. Divinity is the expression of integrity... Mind cannot find fun anywhere but God.

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Character | Divinity | Freedom | Fun | God | Integrity | Mind |

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William Secker

He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind.

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Character | Happy | Little | Mind |

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Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley

Self-control is promoted by humility. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

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Character | Control | Evil | Humility | Mind | Pride | Self | Self-control |

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Logan Pearsall Smith

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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Character | Mind |

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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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Horace Smith

Every man, like narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow. This love for any particular woman is self-love at second hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism.

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Character | Love | Man | Reflection | Self | Self-love | Woman |

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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

As for my labors, if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life, destroy a single vice, or give a morning’s cheerfulness to an honest mind - in short, if the world can be but one virtue the better, or in any degree less vicious, or receive from then the smallest addition to their innocent diversions - I shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain.

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Better | Character | Cheerfulness | Destroy | Impertinence | Life | Life | Mind | Receive | Virtue | Virtue | World | Think |

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Charles Sprague

A light and trifling mind never takes in a great ideas, and never accomplishes anything great or good.

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Character | Good | Ideas | Light | Mind |

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