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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Erwin H. Schell

Man is at his best when stimulated by hope of reward, fear of failure, and the light of a star.

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Character | Failure | Fear | Hope | Light | Man | Reward | Wisdom |

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Jeremiah Seed

Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning what you need not be ashamed of - that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it, more grace to correct it.

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Character | Error | Grace | Humility | Need | Sense | Wrong |

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

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Character | Hope | Forgive | Friends |

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George Stanley, fully George Francis Gillman Stanley

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldiers and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

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Capacity | Character | Divinity | Hope | Humility | Integrity | Mankind | Men | Sanity | World |

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Thomas Tickell

Vain man would trace the mystic maze with foolish wisdom, arguing, charge his God, his balance hold, and guide his angry rod, new-mould the spheres, and mend the skies’ design, and sound th’ immense with his short scanty line. Do thou, my soul, the destined period wait, when God shall solve the dark decrees of fate, His now unequal dispensation clear, and make all wise and beautiful appear.

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Balance | Character | Design | Fate | God | Man | Soul | Sound | Wisdom | Wise | God |

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Michelangelo, aka Michaelangelo Buonarroti, fully Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni NULL

I thought all the while, I was leaning how to live, but now I know, I was learning how to die.

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Learning | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

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Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

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Character | Fear | Hope | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |

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William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

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Admiration | Character | Hope | Love |

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Zitkala-Sa, also Zitkala-Ša, missionary-given name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin NULL

The racial lines, which once were bitterly real, now serve nothing more than marking out a living mosaic of human beings.

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Character | Nothing |

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Herbert Sebastian Agar

Every civilization rests on a set of promises... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

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Civilization | Faith | Hope | Wisdom |

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Zeno of Citium NULL

One should seek virtue for its own sake and not from hope or fear, or any external motive. It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

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Character | Fear | Hope | Life | Life | Mind | Virtue | Virtue | Happiness |

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François Arago, fully François Jean Dominique Arago

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.

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Comfort | Common Sense | Estimation | Genius | Mankind | Peace | People | Rank | Reason | Science | Sense | Time | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

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