Great Throughts Treasury

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Tyron Edwards

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.

Apothegms | Children | Duty | Family | Maxims | Mind | Sound | Teach | Thought | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot wake without awakening others.

Awakening | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John William Draper

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Absolute | Individual | Nothing | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Thought |

Tyron Edwards

Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way.

Change | Duty | Growth | Inconsistency | Knowledge | Mind | Opinion | Progress | Sound | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Thought |

Mary Baker Eddy

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.

Achievement | Devotion | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

James "Jim" L. Foster

To have thought far too little, we shall find in the review of life, among our capital faults.

Life | Life | Little | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Randolph S. Foster, fully Randolph Sinks Foster

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever depending in the companionship of His thought and bliss, “from glory to glory” - could we desire more?

Desire | Glory | Life | Life | Lord | Thought | Wisdom | Companionship | Thought |

Alexander Fleming, fully Sir Alexander Fleming

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

Individual | Perception | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Feather

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Effort | Man | Receive | Rule | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Bernice Bowles "Fitz" Fitz-Gibbon

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago.

Little | Right | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Feather

The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

Thought | Wisdom | Work | Thought |

Lowell Fillmore

Every individual is a king in the castle of his own mind. As king of his thoughts he can think those thought which will make him an unhappy and fearful monarch, or he can make his reign joyous and harmonious by listening to the Father within himself before making decisions.

Father | Individual | Listening | Mind | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Think | Thought |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.

Man | Past | Self | Spirit | Thought | Wisdom | Wise | Thought |

J. G. Gallimore, fully Jerry G. Gallimore

Your self image is your pattern! Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern of thought. Your pattern leads your life.

Life | Life | Self | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |