Great Throughts Treasury

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William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa

Old age brings us to know the value of the blessings which we have enjoyed, and it brings us also to a very thankful perception of those which yet remain. Is a man advanced in life? The ease of a single day, the rest of a single night, are gifts which may be subjects of gratitude to God.

Age | Blessings | Day | God | Gratitude | Life | Life | Man | Old age | Perception | Rest | Wisdom | Value |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Rendering oneself unarmed when one has been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling - that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Means | Mind | Peace | Rest | Wisdom |

William Penn

And yet we are very apt to be full of ourselves, instead of Him that made what we so much value, and but for whom we can have no reason to value ourselves. For we have nothing that we can call our own, no, not ourselves; for we are all but tenants, and at will too, of the great Lord of ourselves, and the rest of this great farm, the world that we live upon.

Lord | Nothing | Reason | Rest | Will | Wisdom | World | Value |

William Penn

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue: it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.

Body | Folly | Mind | Rest | Silence | Sin | Spirit | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Ayano Otani

The surest eventuality in life is death... You always have to do your best in whatever work comes your way. Only then can you express your gratitude for having been endowed with life. Only then can you rest assured of reaching paradise after death.

Death | Gratitude | Life | Life | Paradise | Rest | Wisdom | Work |

Joshua Reynolds, fully Sir Joshua Reynolds

We never are satisfied with our opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they are ratified and confirmed by the suffrages of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle forever; we endeavor to get men to come to us, when we do not go to them.

Dispute | Mankind | Men | Rest | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.

Rest | Wisdom |

Diana Vreeland, born Diana Dalziel

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Elegance | Mind | Rest | Wisdom |

Ayi Kwei Armah

Happy are those whose life is today and only today. Sad are the prophets and those others whose eyes are open to the past. Blessed are they who neither see their painful yesterdays nor their tomorrows filled with despair: they rest in peace.

Despair | Happy | Life | Life | Past | Peace | Rest | Blessed |

Alain-Fournier, Pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier NULL

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Good | Reform | Rest |

Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Beauty | Joy | Rest | Suffering | Universe | World | Beauty |

E. O. Wilson, fully Edward Osborne "E.O." Wilson

Nothing comes harder than original thought. Even the most gifted scientist spends only a tiny fraction of his waking hours doing it, probably less than one tenth of one percent. the rest of the time his mind hugs the coast of the known, reworking old information, adding lesser data, giving reluctant attention to the ideas of others (what use can I make of them?), warming lazily to the memory of successful experiments, and looking for a problem - always looking for a problem, something that can be accomplished, that will lead somewhere, anywhere.

Attention | Giving | Ideas | Memory | Mind | Nothing | Rest | Thought | Time | Will | Wisdom | Old |

Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friend | Rest | Wisdom | World |

A. J. Ayer, Alfred Jules Ayer

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Authority | Rest | System |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Men | Rest | Wisdom |