Great Throughts Treasury

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Francis Bowes Sayre

Religion isn’t yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

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Character | Doubt | Religion | Right |

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Edward C. Simmons

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

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Character | Failure | Right | Success | Failure |

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Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.

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Character | Failure | Men | Mistake | Success |

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Jacopo Sannazarro

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

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Character | Evil | World |

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Abba Hillel Silver

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure in life.

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Adventure | Aspiration | Character | Evil | Life | Life | Meaning | Repentance | World |

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Binyamin Yehoshua Silver

How can you clarify if you do good deeds because they are right or merely to gain honor and approval? Ask yourself: “Would I do this if I were all alone and no one would ever find out about my good deed?”

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Character | Deeds | Good | Honor | Right | Deeds |

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Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

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Character | Man | Right |

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Robert Southey

Never let man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.

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Character | Evil | Good | Man | Means | Soul |

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William Temple, fully Archbishop William Temple

The right relation between prayer and conduct is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

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Character | Conduct | Important | Prayer | Right |

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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common.

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Abuse | Character | Evil | Understanding | Vice |

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S.G. Tallentyre, nom de plume for Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Character | Death | Right | Will |

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Theophrastus NULL

Tactlessness is a pain-giving failure to hit upon the right moment.

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Character | Failure | Giving | Pain | Right | Failure |

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Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne

If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of healthy, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

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Character | Evil | Heart | Man | Rest | Sorrow | World | Loss |

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Thomas De Witt Talmage

No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defense; defense, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.

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Boasting | Character | Conscience | Custom | Defense | Evil | Indulgence | Man | Mind | Practice |

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