Great Throughts Treasury

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David Hume

To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow is real poverty.

Fear | Happy | Hope | Joy | Melancholy | Poverty | Riches | Sorrow | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Hope | Love | Mother | Wisdom | Youth | Friendship |

Thomas Hobbes

The end of worship amongst men is power. For where a man seeth another worshipped, he supposeth him powerful, and is the readier to obey him; which makes his power greater. But God has no ends: the worship we do him proceeds from our duty and is directed according to our capacity by those rules of honor that reason dictateth to be done by the weak to the more potent men, in hope of benefit, for fear of damage, or in thankfulness for good already received from them.

Capacity | Duty | Ends | Fear | God | Good | Honor | Hope | Man | Men | Power | Reason | Thankfulness | Wisdom | Worship | God |

William Dean Howells

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Health | Hope | Prosperity | Spirit | Wisdom | Work |

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, born Vladimir Jabotinsky

I hope always, I desire much, I expect little.

Desire | Hope | Little | Wisdom |

David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

Fear | Hope | Joy | Poverty | Riches | Sorrow | Wisdom |

Ernest Martin Hopkins

The enduring value of religion is in its challenge to aspiration and hope in the mind of man.

Aspiration | Challenge | Hope | Man | Mind | Religion | Wisdom | Aspiration | Value |

John Angell James

To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful and amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.

Adversity | Circumstances | Gloom | God | Happy | Life | Life | Nothing | Submission | Suffering | Will | Wisdom | God |

Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

A man can hope for satisfaction and fulfillment only in what he does not yet possess; he cannot find pleasured in something of which he already has too much.

Fulfillment | Hope | Man | Wisdom |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

God | Hope | Love | Man | Mistake | Oppression | Peace | Wisdom | God |

Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

Watch a man in times of ... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

Adversity | Heart | Man | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Murray D. Lincoln, fully Murray Danforth Lincoln

War as a useful extension of diplomacy is obsolete. No aggressor can hope to come out a winner.

Diplomacy | Hope | War | Wisdom |