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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William Shakespeare

She shall be buried by her Antony: no grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous.

Looks | Trifles |

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 |

William Shakespeare

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly.

Birth | Power | Spirit |

William Shakespeare

Such it is as are those dulcet sounds in break of day that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear and summon him to marriage.

Distinguish | Evil | God | Good | Noise | Power | Present | God |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Control | Life | Life | Need | Power | Work | Trouble | Learn |

Elizabeth Gilbert

But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time. You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress.

Energy | Good | Love | Money | Qualities | Sense | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Knowing | Power | Race | Struggle | Will | Old |

Elizabeth Gilbert

You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice, staying strong, instead.

Control | Life | Life | Need | Power | Work | Learn |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Behold me! I am worthy of thy loving, for I love thee!

Dreams |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Emotions | Experience | Life | Life | Pain | Power | Talking | Words |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Power | Work |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Government | Object | Power | Government |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

Education |

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

While I may paint in the tints or outlines of rocks and beaches, dawns and harbor, fleet and wharf, I never draw portraits of my neighbors or of my friends.

Life | Life | Power |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - the open sesame to every soul.

Education |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Woman's reproductive organs are far older than man's and far more highly evolved. Even in the lowest mammals, as well as in woman, the ovaries, uterus, vagina, etc., are similar, indicating that the female reproductive system was one of the first things perfected by nature. On the other hand, the male reproductive organs, the testicles and the penis, vary as much among species and through the course of evolution as does the shape of the foot — from hoof to paw. Apparently, then, the male penis evolved to suit the vagina, not the vagina to suit the penis.

Eternal | Men | Past | Power |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It seems incredible, and I love them no less; and I can say that I would rather die than see any diminution of it on one side or the other.

Men | Power | World |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, perhaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all-female world.

Earth | Man | Power | Religion | System | Will | Woman | Wonder | World | Old |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Education |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

There is granted to everyone after death the opportunity of amending his life, if it is at all possible.

Earnestness | Mind | Power | Spirit | Work |