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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Jack C. Yewell

Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn - yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity. These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people.

Character | Contentment | Enough | Giving | Harmony | Learning | Life | Life | People | Qualities | Approval | Learn |

Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

Character | Fear | Hope | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |

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.

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

Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

Character | Competence | Life | Life | Obscurity | Obscurity | Worth |

Francis Atterbury

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.

Hope | Life | Life | Sense | Wisdom | Worth | Think |

Annette A Victorin

Peace comes to us through love, understanding of our fellow men, faith. Peace does not include selfishness nor indifference. Peace is never wrapped at a counter for a price. It is earned by giving of ourselves.

Character | Faith | Giving | Indifference | Love | Men | Peace | Price | Selfishness | Understanding |

George Washington Barrow or Barrows

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart and with lame endeavor.

Heart | Mind | Nothing | Wisdom | Worth |

William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker

True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Doctrine | Giving | God | Life | Life | Religion | Service | Wisdom | Happiness |

Phillips Brooks

Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

Salvation | Soul | Talking | Will | Wisdom | Worth | Learn |

Samuel Butler

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.

Life | Life | Man | Question | Wisdom | Worth |

Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The only popularity worth aspiring after, is the popularity of the heart - the popularity that is won in the bosom of families, and at the side of death beds.

Death | Heart | Popularity | Wisdom | Worth |

Geoffrey Chaucer

And all your dreams and other such like folly, to deep oblivion let them be consigned; for they arise but from your melancholy, by which your health is being undermined. A straw for all the meaning you can find in dreams! They aren’t worth a hill of beans, for no one knows what dreaming really means.

Dreams | Folly | Health | Meaning | Means | Melancholy | Oblivion | Wisdom | Worth |

Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Wisdom | Worth |

George Dawson

Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading are read.

Books | Reading | Society | Wisdom | Worth | Society | Gossip |