Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

Kill | Thought | Time | Woman | Afraid | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

Man | Panic | Pity | Will | Wise | Wonder | Old |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

Destroy | Wants | Woman |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.

Woman |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Be easy about it. Don't rush into things. Savor them more. Make more plans and be more deliberate and specific about the plans that you are making, and in all that you do, let your dominant intent be to find that which pleasures you as you imagine it. Let your desire for pleasure, your desire for feeling good, be your only guiding light. As you seek those thoughts that feel good, you will always be in vibrational harmony with the Energy that is your Source. And under those conditions, only good can come to you, and only good can come from you.

Thinking | Wise | Old |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is

Awe | Heart | Joy | Light | Man | Men | Pain | Self | Time | Woman |

Estonian Proverbs

A man who has learned much is rich.

Man | Woman |

Ethiopian Proverbs

The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed.

Heart | Man | Wise |

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

Every time our intellect thus succeeds in substituting some principles and causes of knowledge for knowledge itself, it is on the right road to wisdom. As a matter of fact, it has already found wisdom, at least in part, while awaiting the day when, fully aware of what the absolutely first principles and first causes truly are, it begins to see everything else in their light.

Man | Principles | Rest | Wise |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.

Accident | Earth | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Mystery | Will | Woman | Understand |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

When money represents so many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a weak moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy,—that is real virtue.

Man | Woman |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

WeÂ’re the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. EverybodyÂ’s afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Democracy | Will | Wise |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Deeds | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Vision | Wise | Work | Deeds |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Despair | Individual | Land | Man | People | Sense | Will | Woman |

Euripedes NULL

A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man

Man | Wife | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Folly | Life | Life | Will | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Wise |

Euripedes NULL

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Good | Quiet | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Man | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

Wise |