Great Throughts Treasury

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Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Fear |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

Despair | Envy | Woe |

Emile Zola

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighborhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.

Authority | Conscience | Doubt | Fear | Justice | Knowledge | Position | Public | Responsibility | Struggle | Terror | Guilty | Understand |

Emile Zola

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Despair | Destroy | Effort | Good | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Man | Men | Office | Order | People | Public | Society | War | Society |

Emile Zola

The idea of discipline is superior in the blood of the soldiers, the accuracy is not enough to deflect his position of authority? Discipline means obedience to say. army is the dignity of us, loving him, asked him to show respect. Yes, no doubt, will stand up to the first threat, the French army, which is to defend the land of all the people, who love and respect him, but. But it's not that, we need justice and we want to keep the inside of her respected. Maybe tomorrow will give our hands the sword in question, he comes to the master. The hilt of the sword, that when it comes to kissing piety to God, no!

Fate | Fear | Fate |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

A great hope fell, you heard no noise, the ruin was within.

Fear |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Fear |

Emma Goldman

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.

Body | Earth | Fear | Glory | Life | Life | Man | Morality | Pain | Religion | Self-denial | Sorrow | Soul | Struggle |

Emma Goldman

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Belief | Daring | Fear | Fidelity | Honesty | Life | Life | Morality |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

So he'll never know how much love: not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself, than I own. I do not know that our souls are made, but they are equal, and Linton is as different from mine as a moonbeam is different from lightning, fire or ice.

Cause | Danger | Distinction | Enough | Existence | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Regard | Sincerity | Danger | Trouble | Think |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

Fear |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I, wretched creature finally had to lower my flag, after a long struggle until dark with gloom and loneliness.

Distinction | Enough | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Regard | Sincerity | Society | Society |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Aid | Despair | Dreams | Existence | Learn |

Emma Goldman

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Fear | Force | Life | Life | Meaning | Men | Opinion | Public | Receive | Right | Wants | Will | Woman | Work | Learn |

Emmet Fox

All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal… The shortest and easiest pathway of all is the pathway of Love. It is the one pathway that is open to all, irrespective of what their personal conditions or circumstances may be. For every person, everywhere, true attainment awaits through the yoga of Love, for yoga means union and it is our union with God that makes the attainment possible.

Fear | World |

Emma Goldman

The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood — these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society — the Communist State suppressed to the point of extermination. Man's instinctive sense of equity was branded as weak sentimentality; human dignity and liberty became a bourgeois superstition; the sanctity of life, which is the very essence of social reconstruction, was condemned as unrevolutionary, almost counter-revolutionary. This fearful perversion of fundamental values bore within itself the seed of destruction.

Fear | Heaven | Humanity | Man | Mankind | Reward | Spirit | Truth | Will |

English Proverbs

A good beginning is half the battle.

Fear | Good |

Emmet Fox

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

Beginning | Fear | Ideas | Life | Life | Love of money | Love | Money | Need | Public | Spirit | Learn |

Esther Duflo

There’s no silver bullet. You cannot helicopter people out of poverty.

Fear |

Evgeny Morozov

The use of text messaging for propaganda purposes – known as “red-texting” – reveals another creative streak among China’s propaganda virtuosos. The practice may have grown out of a competition organized by one of China’s mobile phone operators to compose the most eloquent Party-admiring text message. Fast forward a few years, and senior telecom officials in Beijing are already busily attending “red-texting” symposia. “I really like these words of Chairman Mao: ‘The world is ours, we should unite for achievements. Responsibility and seriousness can conquer the world and the Chinese Communist Party members represent these qualities.’ These words are incisive and inspirational.” This is a text message that thirteen million mobile phone users in the Chinese city of Chongqing received one day in April 2009. Sent by Bo Xilai, the aggressive secretary of the city’s Communist Party who is speculated to have strong ambitions for a future in national politics, the messages were then forwarded another sixteen millions times. Not so bad for an odd quote from a long-dead Communist dictator.

Care | Corruption | Darkness | Education | Efficiency | Fear | Government | Justice | Model | Preference | Reading | Receive | Government |