Great Throughts Treasury

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John Armstrong

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still a faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Character | Heart | Sense | Trust | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Phillips Brooks

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Character | Impulse | Life | Life | Men | Peace | Self | Soul | Surrender | Trust |

Tyron Edwards

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Life | Life | Power | Providence | Trust | Wisdom |

E. M. Forster, fully Edward Morgan Forster

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Character | Life | Life | People | Trust |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Character | Trust | Will |

John Cunningham Geikie

He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity. An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trust him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Equanimity | God | Heart | Life | Life | Little | Temper | Trust | Wants | God |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Character | Money | Trust |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.

Character | Day | Trust |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

Who trust in himself will lead and rule the swarm.

Character | Rule | Trust | Will |

Gloria D. Karpinski

Life cannot be controlled. It is a mystery inviting us to participate, to risk, to trust fate, to accept the blank rune stone, the unknown. Surrender teaches us not so much to understand as to inhabit the mystery... Once we can accept the larger mystery of Life, we can consciously create within it.

Character | Fate | Life | Life | Mystery | Risk | Surrender | Trust | Understand |

James Ramsay MacDonald

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

Character | God | Little | Trust | God |

Cardinal de Retz, Jean Francois-Paul de Gondil

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Character | Man | Trust |