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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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely till the sun goes down.

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Harold W Thompson

Who has loved most, he best can love again.

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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.

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Character | Conduct | Important | Prayer | Right |

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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.

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Character | Death | Right | Will |

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Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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Character | Existence | Life | Life | Love | Happiness |

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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.

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Character | Good | Love | Opportunity | Reality | Will |

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Wilhelm Stekel

Training through love breeds love.

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Character | Love | Training |

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Richard Henry Stoddard

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

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Character | Love |

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