Great Throughts Treasury

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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 |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Of course, Socialism is violently denounced by the capitalist press and by all the brood of subsidized contributors to magazine literature, but this only confirms the view that the advance of Socialism is very properly recognized by the capitalist class as the one cloud upon the horizon which portends an end to the system in which they have waxed fat, insolent and despotic through the exploitation of their countless wage-working slaves.

Business | Care | Earth | Knowing | Men | Question | Society | System | Society | Business | Old |

Euripedes NULL

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Earth |

Euripedes NULL

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Earth |

Euripedes NULL

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Friend | Worth |

Euripedes NULL

The real hero stands steadfast in the front row, unperturbed not blinking an eye in the face of the launch of the winged spear.

Man | Worth |

Euripedes NULL

Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands the laws, and lords it over them.

Daughter | Evil | Father | God | Gold | Good | Heaven | Mind | Nature | Nothing | Order | Wife | Will | God |

Eustace Budgell

I have read somewhere that one of the popes refused to accept an edition of a saintÂ’s works, which were presented to him, because the saint, in his effigies before the book, was drawn without a beard.

Worth |

Euripedes NULL

Young people, the most beautiful jewels in wealth is also the most beautiful in the case of want and woe!

Blessings | Earth | Humanity | Mortal |

Euripedes NULL

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Earth |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book.

Church | Faith | Father | Hunger | People | Religion | Right | Words | Worth | Think |

Evelyn Underhill

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bare the cost.

Contrast | God | Prayer | Worth | God |

Evan Esar

People who live in glass houses should take out insurance.

Example | Worth |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free.

Earth | Life | Life | Mind | Unique | Youth | Youth |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Worth |

Faye Wattleton

Choosing a career in nursing was perhaps my most important professional decision. Had I not had direct experiences with patients and gained an understanding of what goes on in women's lives, I would not have had the determination and commitment to non-compromise on the gains that women have made with respect to reproductive choice.

Earth | Will |

Feisal Abdul Rauf

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

Argument | Earth | Faith | People | Religion | Tradition | Truth | Wrong |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

I have tried to write Paradise. Do not move. Let the wind speak. That is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made. Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

Worth |