Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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O. Carl Simonton

The more I can love everything - the trees, the land, the water, my fellow men, women, and children, and myself - the more health I am going to experience and the more of my real self I am going to be.

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Character | Children | Experience | Health | Land | Love | Men | Self | Wisdom |

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Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

There is no real love of virtue without the knowledge of public good.

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Character | Good | Knowledge | Love | Public | Virtue | Virtue |

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James Schouler

Reason is the triumph of the intellect, faith of the heart; and whether the one or the other shall best illumine the dark mysteries of our being, they only are to be despaired of who care not to explore.

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Care | Character | Faith | Heart | Reason | Wisdom |

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Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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Character | Love |

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Erwin H. Schell

Man is at his best when stimulated by hope of reward, fear of failure, and the light of a star.

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Character | Failure | Fear | Hope | Light | Man | Reward | Wisdom |

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Albert Schweitzer

To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation - this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

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Age | Character | Love | Think |

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Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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Character | Faith | Man | Problems | Responsibility | Will | Learn |

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Horace Smith

Every man, like narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow. This love for any particular woman is self-love at second hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism.

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Character | Love | Man | Reflection | Self | Self-love | Woman |

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To be rich in admiration and free from envy; to rejoice greatly in the good of others; to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence; these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy and without which money can buy nothing. He who has such a treasury of riches, being happy and valiant himself, in his own nature, will enjoy the universe as if it were his own estate; and help the man to whom he lends a hand to enjoy it with him.

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Absence | Admiration | Character | Envy | Fortune | Generosity | Good | Happy | Heart | Love | Man | Money | Nature | Nothing | Riches | Universe | Will |

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

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Character | Hope | Forgive | Friends |

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Harold W Thompson

Who has loved most, he best can love again.

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Character | Love |

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