Great Throughts Treasury

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John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

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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?

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

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Alexander Ziskind Maimon

The only way to do good deeds without being motivated by the need for approval from others is to reach the level of considering praise and insults equal.

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Character | Deeds | Good | Need | Praise | Deeds | Approval |

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Abu Yazid Tayfur ibn 'Isa ibn Surushan al-Bismtami

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Whoever knows God through God becomes alive, and whoever knows God through self becomes dead.

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Forgetfulness | God | Self | Wisdom | God |

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Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

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Character | Fear | Hope | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |

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Paul Tyner

For this cause he came into the world; that he might be a witness to the truth; a living, unimpeachable witness of the truth that shall make us free - the truth of man’s religion (reunion) with God, through absolute spiritual self consciousness - with God - with the Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient Source and Fountain of Life, “in whom we live and move and have our being,” without whom we are not!

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Absolute | Cause | Character | Consciousness | Eternal | God | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Self | Truth | Witness | World | God |

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Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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Good | Learning | Manners | Wisdom |

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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

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Character | Love | Self | Self-love |

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Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

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Character | Competence | Life | Life | Obscurity | Obscurity | Worth |

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Nathan Ackerman, fully Nathan Ward Ackerman

The image of self and the image of family are reciprocally interdependent.

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Family | Interdependent | Self | Wisdom |

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Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. to make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

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Character | Emotions | Good | Manners |

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Francis Atterbury

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.

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Hope | Life | Life | Sense | Wisdom | Worth | Think |

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Horace Traubel

Have I met the hour patiently, without fear, at the portal? Now is my name called, of the lip of my love has spoken: Do I mistake you, O divine Signaler? is it after all some other soul that is hailed. My self is my answer: there’s that in my heart responds, meeting the call with equal voice, establishing forever the unspeakable bond! Bond that does not bind - bond that frees - bond that discovers and bestows. Look! I am flushed with inexhaustible possessions! The old measures vanish, I am expanded to infinite sweep... Before birth, seeing birth, after life seeing life!... This minute grown infinite, the far worlds spread before me, the endless drift of soul...

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Birth | Character | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Mistake | Possessions | Self | Soul | Old |

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Elazar ben Azariah, alt. spelling Eleazar

Some of a man's praise may be sung in his presence, all of it in his absence.

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Absence | Man | Praise | Wisdom |

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