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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Enrico Cialdini, Duca di Gaeta

Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible.

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Character | Forgetfulness | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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Champ Clark, formally James Beauchamp Clark

By discharging our duty thoroughly and well, subordinating personal desires to principle, and personal ambition to an exalted love of country, we will not only receive the endorsement of the people, but, what is far better, we will deserve their endorsement.

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Ambition | Better | Character | Duty | Love | People | Receive | Will | Ambition |

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Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accidents than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Character | Events | History | Reason | Wisdom |

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

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Character | Knowledge | Will |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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Character | God | Grace | People | Sadness | God | Think |

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J. J. de Chenier

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

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Character | Practice | Reason | Virtue | Virtue |

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Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

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Character | Safe | Will | Happiness |

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister’s counsel and the mother’s prayer.

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Character | Counsel | Life | Life | Mother | Nature | Prayer | Society | Society | Counsel |

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Jeremy Collier

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience, to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

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Character | Conscience | Courage | Dignity | Enough | Nature | Reason |

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Charles Edwin Carruthers

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

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Character | Will | Work |

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George Campbell

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

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Character | Discussion | Friend | Truth | Will |

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Cassius, fully Gaius Cassius Longinus NULL

To live a life of pleasure is impossible without living a life of virtue and justice.

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Character | Justice | Life | Life | Pleasure | Virtue | Virtue |

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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, fully Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, conte di Cavour

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

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Character | Man | Men | Will |

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William Ellery Channing

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

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Character | Harmony | Life | Life | Love | Soul | Universe |

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Ilka Chase

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

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Character | People |

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Paul Chatfield, pseudonym for Horace Smith

There are two things which will make us happy in this life, if we attend to them. The first is, never to vex ourselves about what we cannot help; and the second, never to vex ourselves about what we can help.

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Character | Happy | Life | Life | Will |

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