Great Throughts Treasury

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William Jewett Tucker

Be not content with the commonplace in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

Ambition | Attainment | Character | Conscience | Heart | Impression | Power | Will | World | Ambition |

Daniel Webster

A conscience void of offense, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.

Character | Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Man | Offense | God |

Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Character | Inferiority | Man | Right | Superiority | Wrong |

Daniel Webster

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon bronze, time will efface it; if we build temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with just principles of action, with fear of wrong and love of right, we engrave on those tables something which no time can obliterate, and which will brighten and brighten through all eternity.

Action | Character | Eternity | Fear | Love | Principles | Right | Time | Will | Work | Wrong |

Richard Baxter

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Conscience | Death | God | Nothing | Quiet | Time | Wisdom |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Man | Opinion | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Arnold Bennett, fully Enoch Thomas Arnold Bennett

The ideas of the average decently informed person are so warped, and of perspective, and ignorant, and entirely perverse and wrong and crude, on nearly every moral subject, that the task of discussing anything with him seriously and fully and to the end is simply appalling.

Ideas | Wisdom | Wrong |

Paul Bourget, fully Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates bad regimen.

Health | Thinking | Unhappiness | Wisdom | Wrong |

John Calvin

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Conscience | Hell | Soul | Torture | Wisdom |

William Ellery Channing

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Conscience | Important | Object | Wisdom |

Charles W. Eliot

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarded who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Evil | Hope | Life | Life | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Tyron Edwards

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receives.

Evidence | Future | Past | Regret | Right | Wisdom | World | Wrong |

Lewis Dilwyn, fully Monsignor Dilwyn W Lewis

One watch set right will do to set many by; one that goes wrong may be the means of misleading a whole neighborhood; and the same may be said of example.

Example | Means | Right | Will | Wisdom | Wrong |

Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Capital punishment | Charity | Crime | Poverty | Punishment | Wisdom | Wrong |