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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Eldress Harriet Bullard

Do good. This should be the aim of every human being, to make the world better for their having lived.

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Better | Character | Good | World |

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Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

You must learn to know others in order to know yourself.

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Character | Order | Learn |

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William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

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Character | Life | Life | Pleasure |

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Abel Bonnard

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

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Character | Duty | Happy | Joy | Obligation | Right | Sadness | World |

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William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall

The highest part of the art of life is the expectation of miracles.

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Art | Character | Expectation | Life | Life | Miracles | Art | Expectation |

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Hugh Blair

Such is the infatuation of self-love, that, though in general doctrine of the vanity world all men agree, yet almost everyone flatters himself that his own case is to be an exception from the common rule.

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Character | Doctrine | Love | Men | Rule | Self | Self-love | World |

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Frank Borman, fully Frank Frederick Borman, II

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

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Character | Spirit |

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Christian Nestell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.

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Beauty | Character | Life | Life | Wisdom | Beauty |

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Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

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Character | Heart | Inspiration | Mind | Will | Wisdom |

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Yosef Leib Bloch, fully R' Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch

Young people imagine there is great value in fame. Those with life experience know that in truth publicity is extremely short-lived. The nature of the world is that every piece of news makes an impression for only a very short time. After those few minutes the impression is erased and quickly forgotten. It is as if it never was.

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Character | Experience | Fame | Impression | Life | Life | Nature | News | People | Time | Truth | World | Value |

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Edward William Bok

Man cannot live by bread alone. The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life - service for others.

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Character | Joy | Life | Life | Man | Money | Power | Service | Truth |

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Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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Cause | Character | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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