Great Throughts Treasury

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Christian Nestell Bovee

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

Body | Little | Mind | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Children | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering the position.

Man | People | Position | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Better | Law | Men | Wisdom |

Claude M. Bristol

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

Will | Wisdom |

Ernest Leroy Boyer

Our obsession with test scores has produced distorted curriculum, teaching, and educational policy. As long as it continues, we will get the dual phenomena of rising test scores and too many illiterate and enumerate citizens.

Obsession | Phenomena | Policy | Will | Wisdom |

Charles R. Brown

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

People | Wisdom | Work |

Jean de La Bruyère

Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Conscience | Health | Influence | Law | Property | Wisdom |

John Christian Bovee

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Better | Law | Men | Wisdom |

Phillips Brooks

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is

Action | Desire | Right | Spirit | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism!

Aphorism | Life | Life | Reason | Wisdom |

Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Law | Love | Wisdom |

William J. Broad and Nicholas J. Wade

Finding facts in actuality is less rewarded than developing a theory of law that explains the facts, and herein lies an enticement. In making sense out of the unruly substance of nature, and in trying to get there first, a scientist is sometimes tempted to play fast and loose with the facts in order to make a theory look more compelling than it really is.

Law | Nature | Order | Play | Sense | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

Benevolence | Fraud | Good | Knowledge | Little | Mankind | Wisdom | World | Friendship | Forgive | Learn |

Horace Bushnell

The moment you can make a very simple discovery, viz., that obligation to God is your privilege, and is not imposed as a burden, your experience will teach you many things - that duty is liberty, that repentance is a release from sorrow, that sacrifice is gain, that humility is dignity, that the truth from that which you hide is a healing element that bathes your disordered life, and that even the penalties and terrors of God are the artillery only to protection to His realm.

Dignity | Discovery | Duty | Experience | God | Humility | Liberty | Life | Life | Obligation | Repentance | Sacrifice | Sorrow | Teach | Truth | Will | Wisdom | God |