Great Throughts Treasury

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Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Character | God | Heart | Men | God |

Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Business | Character | Conduct | Conscience | Death | Heart | Little | Principles | Will | Business |

Ronald E. Osborn

No heart is empty of the humor of curiosity, the beggar being as attentive, in his station, to an increase of knowledge, as the prince.

Character | Curiosity | Heart | Humor | Knowledge |

Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Business | Character | Conscience | Distress | Heart | Little | Love | Man | Principles | Reflection | Smile | Strength | Will | Business |

Petrarch, anglicized from Italian name Francesco Petrarca NULL

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Character | Duty | Eternal | Good | Grace | Heart | Humanity | Life | Life | Love | Right | Soul | Truth |

Plotinus NULL

It is sound, I think, to find the primal source of Love in a tendency of the Soul towards pure beauty, in a recognition, in a kinship, in an unreasoned consciousness of friendly relation.

Beauty | Character | Consciousness | Love | Soul | Sound |

Jane Porter

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Character | Love | Right | Wisdom |

Petrarch, anglicized from Italian name Francesco Petrarca NULL

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Character | Little | Love |

Austin O'Malley

If you would know a man, first learn to love him.

Character | Love | Man | Learn |

William Penn

We are too apt to love Praise, but not to Deserve it.

Character | Love | Praise |

Frank Popoff or Popov

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Change | Character | Conservatism | Love | Means | Success |