Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Life | Life | Men |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack but no one can rate a burden's weight until it has been on his back.

Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Smile | Will | Worth |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The longer I live and the more I see of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, the stronger this truth comes home to me: that the Universe rests on the shoulders of love; a love so limitless, deep, and broad, that men have renamed it and called it--God.

Day | Life | Life | Love |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Life | Life | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed-did some attributes of leadership are universal and are Often about finding ways of Encouraging people to combine Their efforts, Their talents, Their insights, Their enthusiasm and Their inspiration to work together.

Heart | Life | Life | Sincerity |

Ella Grasso, born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process we must do something about it.

Life | Life |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Life | Life |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Life | Life | Little | Passion | Pity | Time | Tragedy | Youth | Youth |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Life | Life |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

Life | Life | Religion |

Emil M. Cioran

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Death | Dread | Life | Life |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Knowing | Life | Life | Little |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Love and thoughts are not in space and time.

Desire | Good | Joy | Kindness | Life | Life |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Angels | Bible | Earth | Heaven | Meaning | People | Understanding | Wisdom | Bible |

Emil M. Cioran

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Decision | Life | Life |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Abnormal | Association | Enough | Famous | Fault | Life | Life | Little | Will | Wonder | Association | Fault | Understand |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Kindness | Life | Life | Meaning |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Life | Life |

Dorothy Parker

There's little in taking or giving there's little in water or wine this living, this living , this living was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is the gain of the one at the top for art is a form of catharsis and love is a permanent flop and work is the province of cattle and rest's for a clam in a shell so I'm thinking of throwing the battle would you kindly direct me to hell?

Life | Life | Rhetoric |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Day | Life | Life |