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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Honoré de Balzac

Hope is the better half of courage. Hope has it not sustained the work, and given the fainting heart time and patience to outwit the chances and changes of life.

Better | Courage | Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Patience | Time | Wisdom | Work |

Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin

Learning is the heart of life - the mystical power that turns a word into a sign, a look into a smile, a house into a home, and a people into a civilization.

Civilization | Heart | Learning | Life | Life | Mystical | People | Power | Smile | Wisdom |

George Washington Barrow or Barrows

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart and with lame endeavor.

Heart | Mind | Nothing | Wisdom | Worth |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.

Heart | Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Babylonian Talmud

He who is loud in his prayers is short in his faith... He who prays must direct his heart to heaven.

Faith | Heart | Heaven | Wisdom |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Blame | Consciousness | Heart | Nothing | Soul | Wisdom | Approval |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Heart | Will | Wisdom |

Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

It is not the mind, it is the heart that makes free.

Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Doubt is an incentive to search for truth, and patient inquiry leads the way to it.

Doubt | Inquiry | Search | Truth | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Better | Heart | People | Wisdom |

Guiraut de Borneilh

Love is perfect kindness, which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes. The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it.

Doubt | Heart | Kindness | Love | Wisdom |

Henry George Bohn

There is nothing can equal the tender hours when life is first in bloom, when the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, finds everywhere perfume; when the present is all and it questions not if those flowers shall pass away, but pleased with its own delightful lot, dreams never of decay.

Dreams | Heart | Life | Life | Nothing | Present | Wisdom |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Absence | Better | Heart | People | Wisdom | Think |

Thomas Brooks

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

God | Heart | Will | Wisdom | God |