Great Throughts Treasury

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Nezahualcoyotl NULL

Banish care. If there be bounds to pleasure, the saddest life must also have an end. Then weave your wreath of flowers, and sing your songs in praise of the all-powerful God; for the glory of this world soon fades away.

Care | Glory | God | Life | Life | Pleasure | Praise | World |

Swedish Proverbs

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Abba Pimen

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.

Heart | Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Truth and morning become light with time.

Light | Time | Truth |

Fritz A. Rothschild

Three correlative pairs: the sublime and wonder, mystery and awe, the glory and faith.

Awe | Faith | Glory | Mystery | Wonder |

David Schmidtz

The special glory of being human is precisely that we have choices. The special sadness lies in knowing there is a limit to how right our choices can be, and a limit to how much the rightness of our choices can matter.

Glory | Knowing | Right | Sadness |

David Schmidtz

People who know they are terminally ill often seem to live more meaningfully. Though dying, they somehow are more alive. They cherish each morning and are vividly aware of each day’s passing. They see despair as a self-indulgent waste, and they have no time to waste.

Day | Despair | People | Self | Time | Waste |

Sheila Peltz Weinberg

The eternal message of the Exodus is not to glory in the defeat of the oppressors or wait until they become the losers and we the victors… The main message is that whichever way you turn in a relationship of exploitation or objectification, you lose.

Defeat | Eternal | Glory | Relationship |

Kālidāsa NULL

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Action | Beauty | Dawn | Day | Existence | Glory | Growth | Hope | Life | Life | Tomorrow | Vision |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Birth | Day | Death | Life | Life | Little | Rest | Youth |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Metaphysics | Religion |

Author Unknown NULL

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Daring | Glory |

Ben Jonson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Glory | Grief | Man | Posterity |