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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Samuel Smiles

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and the work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

Character | Effort | Right | Spirit | Success | Will | Work | Old |

Sir G. Sinclair

Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself. Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.

Character | Evil | Good | Man | Qualities | Reason |

Lewis Schwellenbach, fully Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach

Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.

Character | Man | Mankind | Nature | Progress | Right | Security |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Every individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Character | Contradiction | Individual | Right | Self | Wrong |

Francis Bowes Sayre

Religion isn’t yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

Character | Doubt | Religion | Right |

Pooja Natarajan

To achieve something great in the world you need Passion To fulfill vision, a great leader’s courage comes from Passion Whatever it may be, you must find your Passion If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins Follow your passion and success will follow you! Never underestimate the power of passion Without passion religion is spiritless Without Passion history is meaningless Without Passion art is useless Follow your passion and success will follow you! When you take up a mission with passion There are no dreams too large No innovation unimaginable No frontiers beyond reach Follow your passion and success will follow you! Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel Our reason is the pilot that steers her Without winds the vessel would not move Without a pilot she would be lost Follow your passion and success will follow you! There is no end and there is no beginning There is only the passion of life Passion is universal humanity Passion is the genesis of genius Follow your passion and success will follow you!

Art | Character | Courage | Dreams | History | Innovation | Mission | Need | Passion | Power | Reason | Religion | Success | Will | World | Art |

Edward C. Simmons

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

Character | Failure | Right | Success | Failure |

Binyamin Yehoshua Silver

How can you clarify if you do good deeds because they are right or merely to gain honor and approval? Ask yourself: “Would I do this if I were all alone and no one would ever find out about my good deed?”

Character | Deeds | Good | Honor | Right | Deeds |

Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Character | Man | Right |

William Temple, fully Archbishop William Temple

The right relation between prayer and conduct is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

Character | Conduct | Important | Prayer | Right |

S.G. Tallentyre, nom de plume for Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Character | Death | Right | Will |

Jeremy Taylor

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most sever bridle of the tongue... Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolution of the tongue.

Character | Knowledge | Reason |

Theophrastus NULL

Tactlessness is a pain-giving failure to hit upon the right moment.

Character | Failure | Giving | Pain | Right | Failure |