Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!

Little | Mother | Order | Time | Understand |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Cost | Curiosity | Men | Order | Prayer | Scandal |

Ellen Goodman

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

Day | Need | Order | Work |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Boys | Order | Study | Thought | Learn | Thought |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Order | Self-sacrifice | Think |

Emil M. Cioran

If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Order | Regard |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Love and thoughts are not in space and time.

Desire | Good | Joy | Kindness | Life | Life |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Kindness | Life | Life | Meaning |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Angels | Order | Will |

Emil M. Cioran

Man started out on the wrong foot. the misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Action | Order |

Emil M. Cioran

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

God | Order | Revenge | God |

Emil M. Cioran

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Day | Men | Order |

Dorothy Parker

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

Order |

Emile Zola

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families.

God | Kindness | Punishment | God |

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 Gaboriau

You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.

Order |

Emil M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Order | Waiting |

Emma Goldman

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

Birth | Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Heart | Human nature | Individual | Liberty | Men | Mind | Nature | Observation | Order | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Soul | Study | Teach | Wickedness | Will | World |

Emma Goldman

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Body | Earth | Enjoyment | Guarantee | Individual | Mind | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Restraint | Will |

Emmet Fox

When we remember that God really is omnipotent, untrammeled by what we call time or space or matter, or the vagaries of human nature, it is easy to see that there can be no limit to the power of prayer. You can pray about a problem and solve it at any stage, but of course the earlier you tackle it the easier your work will be.

Change | Conduct | Convictions | Day | Destiny | Experience | Feelings | Life | Life | Pious | Story | Think |