Great Throughts Treasury

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William Shakespeare

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Men |

William Shakespeare

Return'd so soon! Rather approached too late: the capron burns, the pig falls from the spit, the clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; my mistress made it one upon my cheek: she is hot because the meat is cold; the meat is cold because you have no stomach, you have no stomach, having broke your fast; but we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, are pentent for your default today.

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.

Good | Men |

William Shakespeare

So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Business | Cause | Day | Death | Duty | Father | God | Greatness | Guilt | Law | Life | Life | Man | Men | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Sin | Soul | Teach | Time | War | Business | God | Guilty | Think |

William Shakespeare

Such seems your beauty still.

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Ability | Means | Men |

William Shakespeare

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

Comfort | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Age | Looks | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Free men freely work: whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Death | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

From any use that pleased him! God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in't.

Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Better | Depression | Dreams | Important | Integrity | Marriage | Men | Mother | Relationship | Sense | Ugly | Talent |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me

Men | Smile | Will |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All are not taken! there are left behind living Beloveds, tender looks to bring, and make the daylight still a happy thing, and tender voices, to make soft the wind.

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Good | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love | Men | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love | Men | Passion | Quiet | Old |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.

Absolute | Grief | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Action | Means | Men | Rest | Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The cypress stood up like a church that night we felt our love would hold, and saintly moonlight seemed to search and wash the whole world clean as gold; the olives crystallized the vales' broad slopes until the hills grew strong: the fireflies and the nightingales throbbed each to either, flame and song. The nightingales, the nightingales.

Looks | Men |