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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Emmet Fox

There is no need to be unhappy. There is no need to be sad. There is no need to be disappointed, or oppressed, or aggrieved. There is no need for illness or failure or discouragement. There is no necessity for anything but success, good health, prosperity, and an abounding interest and joy in life.

Difficulty | Disease | Enough | Love | Sin | Will |

Erik Hersman

The crowd served as this early warning signal, ... Fifteen minutes later, two truckloads of police showed up and dispersed the youth, ... To the person who reported it, it was like magic.

Mind | Sin | Soul | World |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Adultery | Sin |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any; then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.

Sin |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

Kill | Love | Pride | Sin |

Eugene Peterson

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

God | Sin | Trouble | God |

Ezra Taft Benson

God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't remember now, who yearn for our victory.

Gratitude | Man | Sin | Guilty |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice.

Sin |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The man who marries for love alone is at least honest. But so was Czolgosz.

Sin |

Italian Proverbs

One bird in hand is better far Than two that in the bushes are.

God | Sin | Wisdom | God |