Great Throughts Treasury

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William Blake

The pure soul shall mount on native wings . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

Cause | Consequences | God | Indignation | God | Think |

William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Indignation |

Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

Angels | Day | God | Hope | Indignation | Little | Obedience | Rule | God |

Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Envy | Existence | Individual | Jealousy | Life | Life | Light | People | Unhappiness |

Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Envy | Existence | Individual | Jealousy | Life | Life | Light | Unhappiness |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad, (Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)

Agony | Deeds | Jealousy | Martyrs | Meanness | Mother | Oppression | Wife | Deeds |

Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray

A relevant, famous quote from the Tao is "Ruling a country is like frying a small fish". A good chef will tell you that, when frying a fish (especially a small one), if you keep moving the frying pan and flipping the fish, it will fall apart and become tasteless.

Indignation | Quiet |

Wendell Berry

It is possible, I think, to say that... agriculture formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

Business | Failure | Faith | Greed | History | Hope | Indignation | Land | Life | Life | Obligation | People | Present | Right | Study | Failure | Business |

Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL

On this principle of arrangement, the voice, uttered from the stage as from a center, and spreading and striking against the cavities of the different vessels, as it comes in contact with them, will be increased in clearness of sound, and will wake an harmonious note in unison with itself.

Excellence | Good | Indignation | Need | Excellence |

Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Thanks to the political emigration caused by tsarism, revolutionary Russia acquired a wealth of international links and excellent information on the forms and theories of the world revolutionary movement, such as no other country possessed.

Ability | Energy | Indignation | Opportunity | Struggle |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscription on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay's knee.

Angels | Battle | Change | Death | Health | Heaven | Jealousy | Little | Love | Soul | Thinking | Think |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Indignation |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

I wash Your Feet, and constantly serve You. O Divine Lord, I worship and adore You; I bow down before You. I am the slave of Your slaves; I chant Your Name. I offer this prayer to my Lord and Master.

Jealousy | Lord |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Everybody should work hard to achieve success, growth and prosperity.But, this can be possible only when our health is good.

Jealousy | Qualities |

Thucydides NULL

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Jealousy |

William Shakespeare

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence. Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3

Jealousy |

William James

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Birth | Indignation | Inferiority | Injustice | Injustice | Life | Life | Men | Nothing | Pain | Taste |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Jealousy | Pain | Shame |

William Shakespeare

Oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched.

Jealousy |