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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Esther Baldwin York

Whatever your work is, dignify it with your best thought and effort.

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Character | Effort | Thought | Wisdom | Work | Thought |

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Owen D. Young

A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, abut the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

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Change | Character | Day | Heart | Mind | Spirit |

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Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

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Individual | Materialism | People | Spirit | Wisdom |

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John Winthrop

We must be knit together in this work as one man; we must entertain each other in brotherly affection; we must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together; always having before our eyes our commission and community as members of the same body.

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Body | Character | Commerce | Gentleness | Labor | Man | Meekness | Mourn | Patience | Work | Commerce |

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Xenophon, aka Xenophon of Athens NULL

Enemies are wealth to anyone who can derive profit from them.

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Character | Wealth | Wisdom |

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George Matthew Adams

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

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Good | Soul | Wisdom | Work |

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George Matthew Adams

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

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Argument | Good | Opportunity | Wisdom |

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Apocrypha NULL

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.

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Business | Leisure | Little | Man | Opportunity | Wisdom | Wise | Business |

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Yorah Daiah

It is especially important to express your feelings of joy when giving charity to a poor person. Show the person you are glad to be able to help him out. Showing displeasure giving charity erases the merit of giving.

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Character | Charity | Feelings | Giving | Important | Joy | Merit |

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John Anster, fully John Martin Anster

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

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Boldness | Genius | Magic | Mind | Power | Will | Wisdom | Work |

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Waldemar Argow, fully Wendelin Waldemar Wieland Argow

Religion is a hunger for beauty and love and glory. It is wonder and the mystery and majesty, passion and ecstasy. It is emotion as well as mind, feeling as well as knowing, the subjective as well as the objective. It is the heart soaring to heights the head alone will never know; the apprehension of meanings science alone will never find; the awareness of values ethics alone will never reveal. It is the human spirit yearning for, and finding, something infinitely greater than itself which it calls God.

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Awareness | Beauty | Ecstasy | Ethics | Glory | God | Heart | Hunger | Knowing | Love | Mind | Mystery | Passion | Religion | Science | Spirit | Will | Wisdom | Wonder | Beauty | Awareness |

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Franklin Pierce Adams, pen name F.P.A.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

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Fun | Play | Wisdom | Work |

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Edwin Percy Whipple

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else, that is good, is its own reward.

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Character | Glory | Good | Joy | Labor | Reward |

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Richard T. Williams

Watch a man with scrutiny when his will is crossed, and his desires disappointed. The quality of spirit he reveals at that time will determine the character of that man.

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Character | Man | Spirit | Time | Will |

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William Wordsworth

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thought; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean of the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man - a motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of all thought, and rolls through all things.

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Character | Joy | Light | Man | Mind | Sense | Spirit | Thinking | Thought |

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