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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Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

The perfection of virtue is from... long art and management, self-control.

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Art | Character | Control | Perfection | Self | Self-control | Virtue | Virtue | Art |

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Madeleine Scuderi, also Madeleine de Scudéry, aka Sapho

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

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Character | Temptation | Virtue | Virtue | Temptation |

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Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

There is no real love of virtue without the knowledge of public good.

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Character | Good | Knowledge | Love | Public | Virtue | Virtue |

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George Savile, fully Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue when men have it whether they will or not.

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Character | Crime | Men | Popularity | Virtue | Virtue | Will |

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John Robert Seeley, fully Sir John Robert Seeley

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

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Character | Safe | Virtue | Virtue |

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Marjorie Bowen, pen names included Joseph Shearing, George R. Preddy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell, Pseudonym of Mrs Garbrielle Margaret Vere Long née Campbell

The wages of sin and the reward of virtue are not so different.

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Character | Reward | Sin | Virtue | Virtue |

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John Selden

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

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Character | Humility | Practice | Virtue | Virtue |

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Cornelia Otis Skinner

Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

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Character | Invention | Man | Virtue | Virtue | Woman |

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Jeremiah Seed

Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning what you need not be ashamed of - that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it, more grace to correct it.

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Character | Error | Grace | Humility | Need | Sense | Wrong |

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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

As for my labors, if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life, destroy a single vice, or give a morning’s cheerfulness to an honest mind - in short, if the world can be but one virtue the better, or in any degree less vicious, or receive from then the smallest addition to their innocent diversions - I shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain.

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Better | Character | Cheerfulness | Destroy | Impertinence | Life | Life | Mind | Receive | Virtue | Virtue | World | Think |

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John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

The best people need afflictions for trial of their virtue. How can we exercise the grace of contentment, if all things succeed well; or that of forgiveness, if we have no enemies?

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Character | Contentment | Forgiveness | Grace | Need | People | Virtue | Virtue | Trial |

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