Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Esaias Tegnér

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

Character | Eternal | Heart | Justice | Time | Truth | Will |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Character | Greatness | Knowledge | Man | Morality | Practice | Time | Wisdom |

Stanislaw I, born Stanisław Leszczyński, also spelled Stanislaus NULL

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of the baseness the other is accused of.

Baseness | Character | Self |

William Mackergo Taylor

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Character | Leisure | Men | Temptation | Time |

Theophrastus NULL

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Character | Time | Waste |

Vaga Saneyi Samhita Upanishad

When to a man who understands, the self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?

Character | Man | Self | Sorrow | Unity | Trouble |