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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Epictetus "the Stoic" NULL

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these; for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Peace | Perfection | Progress | Prosperity | Virtue | Virtue |

Francis Bacon

The Virtue of Prosperity is Temperance; the Virtue of Adversity is Fortitude: which in Morals is the more Heroical Virtue.

Adversity | Fortitude | Prosperity | Virtue | Virtue |

Francis Bacon

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue.

Adversity | Fortitude | Prosperity | Virtue | Virtue |

George Washington

Both houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me “To recommend to the People of the United States, a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful Hearts the many Signal Favours of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a Form of Government for their Safety and Happiness”... That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind Care and Protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation; for the signal and manifold Mercies, and the favourable Interpositions of his Providence in the Course & Conclusion of the late War; for the great Degree of Tranquillity, Union, and Plenty, which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational Manner in which we have been enabled to establish Constitutions of Government for our Safety and Happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious Liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various Favours which he hath been pleased to confer upon us... to enable us all, whether in public or private Stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually... to promote the Knowledge and Practice of true Religion and Virtue, and the increase of Science among them and us; and generally to grant unto all mankind such a Degree of temporal Prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Care | Day | God | Government | Knowledge | Liberty | Mankind | Means | Opportunity | People | Plenty | Practice | Prayer | Prosperity | Providence | Public | Religion | Science | Tranquility | Virtue | Virtue | War | Government |

Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the worst effect of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Man | Prosperity |

Henry Steele Commager

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Enlightenment | Freedom | Luxury | Prosperity | Security |

Henry Ward Beecher

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Destroy | Generosity | Prosperity |

Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Adversity | Hero | Prosperity |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Adversity | Prosperity |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Arrogance | Disdain | Pride | Prosperity |

Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

Dignity | Freedom | Indispensable | Individual | Need | Prosperity | Society | Will |

Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli NULL

When a nation makes progress in science, technology, economic life, and the prosperity of its citizens, a great contribution is made to civilization. But all should realize that these things are not the highest good, but only instruments for pursuing such goods.

Civilization | Good | Life | Life | Progress | Prosperity | Science | Technology |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events. There are natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and disheveled desolation.

Desolation | Events | Prosperity | Tragedy |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.

Calamity | Man | Prosperity | Right | Will | Words | Calamity |

Robert Burton

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify men for usefulness and happiness.

Men | Prosperity | Success | Usefulness |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

It is safe to say that the prosperity of our people depends directly on the energy and intelligence with which our natural resources are used. It is equally clear that these resources are the final basis of national power and perpetuity. Finally, it is ominously evident that these resources are in the course of rapid exhaustion.

Energy | Intelligence | People | Power | Prosperity | Safe |

Thomas Fuller

Prosperity and Vanity are often lodg'd together. Prosperity destroys Fools, endangers the Wise, Prosperity has every Thing cheap. Prosperity knows not the worth of Patience. Prosperity takes no Counsel, and fears no Calamity. Prosperous Men seldom mend their Faults.

Calamity | Counsel | Men | Patience | Prosperity | Wise | Worth |

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

Prosperity |

Horatius Bonar

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.

Adversity | Day | Prosperity |