Great Throughts Treasury

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John Wicker

The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.

Character | Life | Life | Man | Money | Need | Success | Wealth |

Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

The people... is an assemblage associated by a common acknowledgment of right and by a community of interests... Where there is no true justice there can be no right.

Justice | People | Right | Wisdom |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.

Wisdom | World |

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

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth, and can, by dignified silence, contrast with the garrulity of trivial minds, the more will the world give him credit for the wealth he does not possess.

Contrast | Credit | Man | Silence | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | World | Worth | Value |

William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker

True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Doctrine | Giving | God | Life | Life | Religion | Service | Wisdom | Happiness |

William Cave

Paganism worships creation instead of the Creator.

Wisdom |

Richard Cecil

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

Little | Man | People | Wealth | Wisdom | Think |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The miser is the man who starves himself, and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Man | Order | Wealth | Wisdom | Worship |

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

As accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he think himself so.

Little | Man | People | Wealth | Wisdom | Think |

James Herbert Case, Jr.

Peace is not the elimination of the causes of war. Rather it is a mastery of great human forces and the creation of an environment in which human aims may be pursued constructively.

Aims | Peace | War | Wisdom |

Horace Bushnell

Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question her is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Duty | God | Knowing | Opportunity | Question | Troubles | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | God |

Edward Parsons Day

To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all.

Wealth | Wisdom |

Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech

When the creation of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Doubt | Fault | Genius | Little | Mind | Sound | Wisdom |

Albert Cooper, fully Albert Glen Cooper

Neither piety, nor liberty can long flourish in a community where the education of youth is neglected.

Education | Liberty | Piety | Wisdom | Youth | Youth |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Mind | Truth | Wisdom |

Orville Dewey

We never seem to know what anything means till we have lost it. The full significance of those words, property, ease, health - the wealth of meaning that lies in the fond epithets, parent, child friend, we never know till they are taken away; till in place of the bright, visible being, comes the awful and desolate shadow where nothing is - where we stretch our hands in vain, ands strain our eyes upon dark and dismal vacuity.

Friend | Health | Meaning | Means | Nothing | Property | Wealth | Wisdom | Words | Child |