Great Throughts Treasury

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Orlando A. Battistam, fully Orlando Aloysius Battista, aka O.A. Battista

Tolerance consists of seeing certain things with your heart instead of with your eyes.

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Character | Heart |

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Al-Ghazali, fully Abū Ḥāmed Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī NULL

The heart perceives that which the eye cannot see.

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Character | Heart | Wisdom |

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Michael Barenbaum

Envy destroys peace of mind and happiness. An envious person’s life is full of suffering and resentment. He is never happy with what he himself has.

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Character | Envy | Happy | Life | Life | Mind | Peace | Resentment | Suffering |

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Eric Lewis, aka ELEW

Romance cannot be put into quantity production - the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

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Character | Love | Romance |

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T. H. Bayly, fully Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Absence | Character | Heart | Wisdom |

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Hugh Blair

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

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Character | Discipline | Enjoyment | Fortune | Heart | Knowledge | Mind | Principles |

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François Bourgoing

The aim and end of prayer is to revere, to recognize and to adore the sovereign majesty of God, through what he is in Himself rather than what he is in regard to us, and rather to love his goodness by the love of that goodness itself than for what it sends us.

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Character | God | Love | Prayer | Regard |

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George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham

All true love is founded on esteem.

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Character | Esteem | Love |

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Hugh Blair

Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe; we should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in selfish enjoyment. But we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human life, of the solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

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Amusements | Character | Cruelty | Distress | Enjoyment | Heart | Indulgence | Life | Life | Pain | Sympathy | Woe | Youth | Think |

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Jean de La Bruyère

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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Character | Love |

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Léon Bloy

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

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Character | Existence | Heart | Man | Order | Suffering |

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Georg Brandes, fully Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

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Character | Love | Truth | War |

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Phillips Brooks

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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Character | Impulse | Life | Life | Men | Peace | Self | Soul | Surrender | Trust |

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Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

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Character | Earth | Expectation | Experience | Heaven | Love | Soul | Expectation | Friends |

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