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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Felix Adler

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

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Force | Hero | Obedience | Soul |

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Italian Proverbs

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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Italian Proverbs

Voice of one, voice of none.

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Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

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Freedom | God | Order | Soul | Struggle | Wants | God |

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Italian Proverbs

Yes and no rule the world.

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Age | Barbarism | Compassion | Contempt | Distress | Dynamic | Force | Morality | Religion | Respect | Time | Will | Respect | Learn |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon? [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

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Morality |

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