Great Throughts Treasury

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Thomas De Witt Talmage

I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

Children | God | Right | Title | Wisdom | World |

Tommy Smothers

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Ideas | People | Right | Wisdom |

Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL

This is what a father ought to be about: helping his son to form the habit of doing right on his own initiative, rather than because he's afraid of some serious consequence.

Father | Habit | Initiative | Right | Wisdom | Afraid |

Richard Whately

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.

Good | Nothing | Right | Sacrifice | Wisdom |

Tiorio NULL

It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.

Better | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Arthur Warwick

There are two things necessary for a traveler to bring him to the end of his journey - a knowledge of his way, a perseverance in his walk. If he walk in a wrong way, the faster he goes the farther he is from home; if he sit still in the right way, he may know his home, but never come to it: discreet stays make speedy journeys. I will first then know my way, ere I begin my walk; the knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey.

Good | Journey | Knowledge | Perseverance | Right | Will | Wisdom | Wrong |

H. G. Wells, fully Herbert George Wells

Better it is toward the right conduct of life, to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

Beginning | Better | Conduct | Life | Life | Right | Will | Wisdom |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and everyone is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever

God | Men | Will | Wisdom | God |