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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Frédéric Louis Godet

What we do for ours while we have them, will be precisely what will render their memory sweet to the heart when we no longer have them.

Heart | Memory | Will | Wisdom |

Gersonides, abbreviation of first letters as RalBaG from Levi ben Gerson NULL

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Fear | Heart | Peace | Wisdom |

Richard Fuller

It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to God, and a heart in which the love of money has cashiered all sense of God - His love, His presence, His glory; and which is no sooner relieved from the mockery of a tedious round of religious formalism than it reverts to the sanctuaries where its wealth is invested, with an intenseness of homage surpassing that of the most devout Israelite who ever, from a foreign land, turned his longing eyes toward Jerusalem.

Absolute | Contrast | Glory | God | Heart | Land | Longing | Love of money | Love | Mockery | Money | Sense | Wealth | Wisdom | God |

Paul Géraldy, pen name of Paul Lefevre

What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very sure.

Body | Desire | Heart | Love | Mind | Responsibility | Self | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the later lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Error | Search | Truth | Wisdom |

George Henning

There are more goods bought by the heart then by the head.

Heart | Wisdom |

Edmund Gosse, fully Sir Edmund William Gosse

Cling to the flying hours; and yet let one pure hope, one great desire, like song on dying lips be set - that ere we fall in scattered fire our hearts may life the world's heart higher.

Desire | Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Wisdom | World |

William Gier Bruno Hagspiel

Smile to yourself until you have warmed your own heart with the sunshine of your cheery countenance. Then go out - and radiate your smile.

Heart | Smile | Wisdom |

Isaac Thomas Hecker

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

Aspiration | Heart | Nothing | Reason | Religion | Silence | Soul | Wisdom | Aspiration |

Reginald Heber

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulcher of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.

Eternity | Heart | Man | Time | Wisdom | World | Old |

Frederick Hertz, until 1946 Friedrich Otto Hertz, aka Germanus Liber

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.

Assertion | God | Heart | Mistake | People | Wisdom | God |

Rowland Hill

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint character which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

Character | Heart | Life | Life | Nothing | Strength | Time | Wisdom | Child | Parent |

Ezekial Hopkins

Regeneration is the ransacking of the soul, the turning of a man out of himself, the crumbling to pieces of the old man, and the new moulding of it into another shape... Has thou a new heart and renewed affections? And dost thou serve God in newness of life and conversation?

Conversation | God | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Soul | Wisdom | God | Old |

William Dean Howells

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Heart | Inequality | Liberty | Wisdom |

Washington Irving

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!

Heart | Pleasure | Wisdom |

Ta-chu Hui-Hai

When you stop thinking that things have a past or future, and that they come or go, then in the whole universe there won't be a single atom that is not your own treasure. All you have to do is look into your own mind; then the marvelous reality will manifest itself at all times. Don't search for the truth with your intellect. Don't search at all. The nature of the mind is intrinsically pure.

Future | Mind | Nature | Past | Reality | Search | Thinking | Truth | Universe | Will | Wisdom |