Great Throughts Treasury

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William Shakespeare

So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at III, ii)

Man | Merit | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wrong |

Emil M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Merit |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.

Merit | Punishment |

Émile Souvestre

Make himself a name: he becomes public .property

Duty | Merit |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

But when the days of golden dreams had perished, and even Despair was powerless to destroy; then did I learn how existence could be cherished, strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.

Gold | Merit | Nothing | Service |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

Doubtless Catherine marked the difference between her friends, as one came in and the other went out. The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect.

Gold | Merit | Nothing | Service | Think |

Emma Goldman

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

Inevitable | Inferiority | Merit | Position | Question | Right | Woman |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Man | Merit | Tragedy | Work |