Great Throughts Treasury

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Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin NULL

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

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Character | Defects | Human nature | Men | Nature | Philosophy |

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Theodore Parker

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward, is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

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Better | Character | Good | History | Man | Mankind | Men | Rule | Time | Loss |

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Harold Cooke Phillips

We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

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Character | Need | Prayer | Self | Self-sufficiency | Think |

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Joseph Parker

No virtue fades out of mankind. No over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

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Character | Despair | Experience | Mankind | Virtue | Virtue |

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Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: man never is, but always to be blest: the soul, uneasy and confin’d from home, rests and expatiates n a life to come.

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Character | Eternal | Hope | Life | Life | Man | Soul |

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Tillie Olsen

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, responsible.

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Character | Means | Relationship |

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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Nothing is better than to search for the true God, even if the discovery of Him eludes human capacity, since the very wish to learn, if earnestly entertained, produces untold joys and pleasures.

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Better | Capacity | Character | Discovery | God | Nothing | Search | Discovery |

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William Penn

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

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Character | Nothing | Opinion | Teach | Learn |

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Leon Roth

Moral action is the meeting-place between the human and divine.

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Action | Character |

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James Thomas Rapier

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

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Character | Desire | Heart | Victim |

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