Great Throughts Treasury

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Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

If chance is defined as an event produced by random motion without any causal nexus, I would say there is no such thing as chance.

Chance | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Good | Policy | Wisdom | World |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Beauty | God | Wisdom | Beauty | God |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Day | Habit | Man | Study | Will | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Miracles | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Duty | Good | Luck | Time | Wisdom |

Pablo Casals, fully Pau Casals i Defilló

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one proposes to do.

Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |

George Barrell Cheever

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

Enjoyment | Faith | Health | Humor | Life | Life | Present | Providence | Sense | Wisdom |

John Caird

Carry religious principles into common life, and common life will lose its transitoriness. The world passes away. The things are seen as temporal. Soon business, with all its cares and anxieties, the whole “unprofitable stir and fever of the world” will be to us a thing of the past. But religion does something better than sigh and moan over the perishableness of earthly things. It finds in them the seeds of immortality.

Better | Business | Immortality | Life | Life | Past | Principles | Religion | Will | Wisdom | World |

Samuel Butler

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Nothing | Wisdom |

James Herbert Case, Jr.

Peace is not the elimination of the causes of war. Rather it is a mastery of great human forces and the creation of an environment in which human aims may be pursued constructively.

Aims | Peace | War | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The dreary thing about most new causes is that they are praised in such very old terms. Every new religion bores us with the same stale rhetoric about closer fellowship and the higher life.

Life | Life | Religion | Rhetoric | Wisdom | Old |

Thomas N. Carruthers

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Achievement | Faith | Wisdom |

Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Man | Truth | Wisdom |