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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H. W. Arnold

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

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Character | Enthusiasm | Man | Success | Will | Wisdom | World |

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Arthur Aughey

Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.

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Character | Despondency | Enough | Good | Man | Sorrow |

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Arthur Aughey

The ability to find fault is believed, by some people, to be a sure sign of great wisdom, when, in most cases, it only indicates narrowness of mind and ill nature.

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Ability | Character | Fault | Mind | Nature | People | Wisdom | Fault |

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Elazar ben Azariah, alt. spelling Eleazar

Respect one another.

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Character | Respect |

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Jacob Bohme, or Jacob Behmen or Jakob Böhme

Spiritual knowledge cannot be communicated from one intellect to another, but must be sought for in the spirit of God.

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Character | God | Knowledge | Spirit | Intellect |

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

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Character | Melancholy | Poverty | Work |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

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Character | Soul | Wisdom | Worth |

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Eric Berne, born as Leonard Bernstein

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

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Character | Heart | Man | World |

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S'rîmad Bhâgavatam, aka Bhâgavata Purâna or Bhāgavata

Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all.

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Character | Self |

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Abaye NULL

Speak not one thing with the mouth and another with the heart.

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Character | Heart |

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Charles Francis Adams II

More than all, and above all Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

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Character | Control | Example | Influence | Men | Present | Self |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

‘Tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

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Character | Good | Man | Precept |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgment. And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and a vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.

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Body | Character | Fame | Fortune | Judgment | Life | Life | Oblivion | Perception | Soul | Time |

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