Great Throughts Treasury

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John Armstrong

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still a faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

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Character | Heart | Sense | Trust | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

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George Matthew Adams

It is indifference which is the cause of most of our unhappiness. Indifference to religion, to the happiness of others, and to the precious gift of freedom, and the wide liberty that is the inheritance of all in a free land. Are we our "Brother's Keeper"? We certainly are! If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself. Bound up with selfishness, we could not hope for the success that could easily be ours.

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Cause | Character | Feelings | Fortune | Freedom | Hope | Indifference | Inheritance | Land | Liberty | Life | Life | Regard | Religion | Selfishness | Success | Unhappiness | Happiness |

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Francis Atterbury

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

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Character | Hope | Life | Life |

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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Character | Heaven | Hope | Riches | Wealth |

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Phillips Brooks

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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Character | Impulse | Life | Life | Men | Peace | Self | Soul | Surrender | Trust |

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Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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Character | Freedom | Hope | Power | Understand |

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Lord Brooke, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Brooke

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

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Character | Fear | Hope | Joy |

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James Boswell

A gentleman who had been very unhappy I marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

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Character | Experience | Hope | Marriage | Wife |

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Jean de La Bruyère

We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.

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Age | Character | Fear | Hope | Old age | Afraid | Old |

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Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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Character | Evil | Good | Hope | Little | Progress |

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William Ellery Channing

The great hope of society is in individual character.

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Character | Hope | Individual | Society | Wisdom | Society |

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Tyron Edwards

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Life | Life | Power | Providence | Trust | Wisdom |

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