Great Throughts Treasury

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Clarence Edward Barnfield

Vocabulary is an index to a civilization, and ours is a disturbed one. That's why so many of the new words deal with war, violence, drugs, racism, and not so many with peace and prosperity.

Civilization | Peace | Prosperity | War | Wisdom | Words |

Babylonian Talmud

No man shall be held responsible for words uttered in affliction.

Affliction | Man | Wisdom | Words |

James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

Love | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Counsel | Knowledge | Wisdom | Words | Counsel |

Christian Nestell Bovee

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

Body | Little | Mind | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Children | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering the position.

Man | People | Position | Wisdom |

Claude M. Bristol

Their repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Mind | Wisdom | Words |

John Christian Bovee

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Fame | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

John Christian Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Children | Kindness | Life | Life | Praise | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Children | Kindness | Life | Life | Praise | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Claude M. Bristol

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

Will | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Contempt | Good | Little | Man | Praise | Wisdom |

Ernest Leroy Boyer

Our obsession with test scores has produced distorted curriculum, teaching, and educational policy. As long as it continues, we will get the dual phenomena of rising test scores and too many illiterate and enumerate citizens.

Obsession | Phenomena | Policy | Will | Wisdom |