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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William Temple, fully Archbishop William Temple

The right relation between prayer and conduct is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

Character | Conduct | Important | Prayer | Right |

Alan William Smolowe

How people think, relate and react to their circumstances, not what the circumstances are, is what determines their realities.

Character | Circumstances | People |

Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Character | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Character | Existence | Life | Life | Love | Happiness |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.

Character | Good | Love | Opportunity | Reality | Will |

Harold W Thompson

The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.

Character | Heart | Pain | Pleasure |

Wilhelm Stekel

Training through love breeds love.

Character | Love | Training |

Richard Henry Stoddard

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Character | Love |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Care | Character | Eternity | Heaven | Life | Life | People |