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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Enrico Cialdini, Duca di Gaeta

Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible.

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Character | Forgetfulness | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accidents than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Character | Events | History | Reason | Wisdom |

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William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

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Character | Conscience | Teach | Work |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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Character | God | Grace | People | Sadness | God | Think |

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William Ellery Channing

Home is the chief school of human virtues.

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister’s counsel and the mother’s prayer.

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Character | Counsel | Life | Life | Mother | Nature | Prayer | Society | Society | Counsel |

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Cassius, fully Gaius Cassius Longinus NULL

To live a life of pleasure is impossible without living a life of virtue and justice.

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Character | Justice | Life | Life | Pleasure | Virtue | Virtue |

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William Ellery Channing

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

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Character | Harmony | Life | Life | Love | Soul | Universe |

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Ilka Chase

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

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Character | People |

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Sri Chinmoy, born Chinmoy Kumar Ghose

The meaning of life is to become inseparably one with God the transcendental Bliss and God the universal Peace. The meaning of life is to achieve unconditional self-giving and a self-giving will... complete faith in oneself and a birthless and deathless faith in God. Life is love... Life needs a dream and a goal... Transcendence is the glorious beginning of human perfection... Who am I? I am my life’s unfinished God-manifestation.

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Beginning | Character | Faith | Giving | God | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Peace | Perfection | Self | Will | God |

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Jeremy Collier

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

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Character | Confidence | Language | Security | Truth | Virtue | Virtue |

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

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Character | Death | Time | Will |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God.

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Achievement | Character | Endurance | God | Soul |

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James Fenimore Cooper

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

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Character | Hope | Wisdom |

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