Great Throughts Treasury

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Elif Safak

Another base unit and being alone are two different things, when be lonely It's easy to fool yourself and think you you are going on the right path but being alone is better for us because it means you will be alone without feeling you are single , but in the end, it is best that you are looking for one person serve as a mirror for you to remember that you cannot really see yourself, but at the heart of another person and the existence of God P inside.

Creativity | Men | Mother | Parents | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love | Men | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love | Men | Passion | Quiet | Old |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death.

Care | Love | Means | Passion |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Life | Life | Little | Passion | Pity | Time | Tragedy | Youth | Youth |

Emil Nolde

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Passion |

Emile Zola

Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Passion |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near; and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom, as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure. She was a happy creature, and an angel in those days. It is a pity she could not stay content.

Earth | Mind | Nature | Passion |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

Passion | Superstition |

Emma Goldman

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

Ideas | Passion | Qualities | Revolution |

Eudora Welty

My love for the alphabet, which endures, grew out of reciting it but, before that, out of seeing the letters on the page. In my own story books, before I could read them for myself I fell in love with various winding, enchanted-looking initials drawn by Walter Crane at the head of fairy tales. In Once upon a time, an o had a rabbit running it as a treadmill, his feet upon flowers. When the day came years later for me to see the Book of Kells, all the wizardry of letter, initial, and word swept over me a thousand times, and the illumination, the gold, seemed a part of the world's beauty and holiness that had been there from the start.

Indifference | Passion |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

On September , when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Absolute | Earth | God | Good | Passion | God | Gossip |

Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin

American is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy – how we buy it – we’ll change who we are.

Good | Happy | Kindness | Love | Miracles | Past | Prayer | Time |

Ezra Taft Benson

Not cheap politicians but statesmen are needed today. Not opportunists but men and women of principle must be demanded by the people. In this time of great stress and danger we must place [in office] only those dedicated to the preservation of our Constitution, our American Republic, and responsible freedom under God. “Oh, God, give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot box.”

Hope | Lord | Miracles | Wants | Will | Woman |

Gustave Flaubert

My Word, said Bouvard, look at those worlds disappearing. Pecuchet replied: If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling. What is the point of it all? Perhaps there isn?t a point. Beautiful things spoil nothing. Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

Excellence | Passion | Will | Excellence |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.

Church | Miracles |

Italian Proverbs

Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.

Future | Passion |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

Education | Passion | Right | Value |