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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Jeremy Taylor

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety, but he swells my joy and makes it double.

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Friend | Joy | Man | Sorrow | Wisdom |

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Igor Feodorovitch Stravinsky, or Fyodorovich

Art postulates communion, and the other artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

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Art | Joy | Need | Wisdom |

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O. J. Simon

Faith, love and sorrow are three elements that mysteriously blend in human experience, each having its own tale to tell of the relation which we bear to the Supreme Being.

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Experience | Faith | Love | Sorrow | Wisdom |

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William Gilmore Simms

Not to sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasure activity.

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Aspiration | Fortune | Joy | Pleasure | Wisdom | Aspiration |

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Johan August Strindberg

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

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Joy | Learning | Life | Life | Pleasure | Wisdom |

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Union Prayer Book NULL

To brood over our sorrow is to embitter our grief.

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Grief | Sorrow | Wisdom |

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Victor Weisskopf, fully Victor "Viki" Frederick Weisskopf

Science is an important part of the humanities because it is based on an essential human trait: curiosity about the how and why of our environment. We must foster wonder, joy of insight.

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Curiosity | Important | Insight | Joy | Science | Wisdom | Wonder |

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Simone Weil

If we find fullness of joy in the thought that God exists, we should find the same fullness in the knowledge that we ourselves do not exist for it is the same thought.

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God | Joy | Knowledge | Thought | Wisdom | God | Thought |

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John Yepes “Saint John of the Cross”

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps a holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

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God | Joy | Love | Pleasure | Soul | Wisdom | God |

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Hans Zinnser

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

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Capacity | Ideas | Joy | Science | Teach | Wisdom | Learn |

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Phil Batchelor

The time we spend on earth is but one tick of the eternal clock in an unending eternity. We are here in mortality for a brief moment and then on to the next stage of our development. It does not matter how many trials we have in life, just how we handle them. It does not matter how long we live, just how we live. How can we appreciate eternal good health if we have never experienced sickness, pain, or disease? How can we appreciate eternal joy if we have never experienced disappointment, hardship, or failure? How can we appreciate living forever if we have never known death?

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Death | Disease | Earth | Eternal | Eternity | Failure | Good | Health | Joy | Life | Life | Pain | Time | Trials |

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Obafemi Awolowo, fully Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, commonly known as Awo

After rain comes sunshine; after darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy, there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

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Darkness | Dawn | Joy | Misfortune | Prosperity | Sorrow | Ugly | Misfortune |

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