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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Felix Adler

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

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Experience | Religion | Spirit | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

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Nations | Object | Race | Spirit | Time |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

After some while Bilbo became impatient. Well, what is it? he said. The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

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Gold | Journey | Right | Spirit | Thought | Wants | World | Wrong | Thought |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I thought up an ending for my book. ?And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days.?

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Humility | Power | Strength |

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