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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Edwin Arlington Robinson

The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell GOD with the wrong blocks.

Power | Wisdom |

Eileen Garrett

Insight is within the grasp of the dreamer, for he escapes the waking intensity which tends to hold back the vitality that bids us carry on with life, often as underground levels. The eternal now instinctively carries us forward and contains within it knowledge and experience of the routes ahead, even though those routes are dimmed when we awaken to each day's new experiences. The prediction is clear in a dreaming world, but the route is clouded when we surface to live out the day's experience. The outer eye discerns only what is to be undertaken in a three-dimensional world.

Age | Dreams | Evolution | Giving | Happy | Man | Technology | World |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

I can understand J. Edgar Hoover, because he wasn't inaccurate.… He said that we were the main threat. We were trying to be the main threat. We were trying to be the vanguard organization. J. Edgar Hoover was an adversary, but he had good information. We were plugged into all of the revolutionary groups in America, plus those abroad. We were working hand-in-hand with communist parties here and around the world, and he knew that.

Aggression | Meaning | People | Power | Will |

Eileen Garrett

There is a place for each individual in the world, but you must seek and find where your place is and where you fit in. If you are afraid to take the responsibility of bringing in the new, do not try to stop those souls who are willing to do it. Realize that those souls who have been trained and inspired to undertake this task will do so, for it is their work. Find your rightful place in the whole vast plan, and if you are not in the front line do not let it disturb you. Remember, all sorts of people are needed to make up the whole. Simply accept your specific work and do what you know you have to do wholeheartedly, and allow those souls who have been placed in the position of leadership and responsibility to go ahead. Give them your full backing and complete loyalty; they need it and appreciate it. Lift up your heart in deep love praise and gratitude for them, and always give of your very best.

Future | Language | Mind |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

Power |

Egyptian Proverbs

The drunk is in the care of the sober.

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Struggle |

Elif Safak

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

Envy | Heaven | Hell | Present | Right | Time | Afraid |

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Attention | Light | Mistake | Obedience | Power | Will | World | Teacher |

Elias Canetti

A Bookseller might be a King, but a King will never be a Bookseller.

Energy | People |

Elihu Root

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Authority | Conduct | Conformity | Control | Counsel | Force | Man | Nations | Power | Right | Counsel |

Elias L. Magoon

He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own.

Earth | Energy | God | Rest | Reward | God |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

Force | Power |

Eleanora Duse, aka Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Nature | Power | Soul |

Elif Safak

Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

Change | Contentment | Daughter | Day | Life | Life | Light | Looks | Mind | Nothing | People | Power | Regret | Safe | Time | Will | Wonder | Wrong | Think |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

Bravery | Courage | Power | Strength | Thought | Thought |

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Effort | Men | Mob | Occupation | Organization | Past | Power | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Work |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

If we choose life and liberty, compassion and service, character and faith, we will honor those who came before us, and inspire the children of tomorrow.

Power |

William Shakespeare

ROMEO: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. JULIET: Then have my lips the sin that they have took. ROMEO: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Juliet: You kiss by the book.

Little |

William Shakespeare

So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.

Power |