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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"O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, that notwithstanding thy capacity receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, of what validity and pitch soe'er, but falls into abatement and low price, even in a minute!" - William Shakespeare

"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." - William Shakespeare

"I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay." - Elizabeth Gilbert

"Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?" - Elizabeth Gilbert

"Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life." - Elizabeth Lesser

"Have a care over my people. You have my people—do you that which I ought to do. They are my people... See unto them—see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am." - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

"My life closed twice before its close; it yet remains to see if Immortality unveil a third event to me, so huge, so hopeless to conceive, as these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell." - Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

"I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. (Mr. Lockwood)" - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"I make you my queen. Whatever happens out there, here, you will always be my queen. Heathcliff to Catherine (Hey, Heathcliff, women don't want to be queens, just loved.)" - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"It is no more my business to marry Edgar Linton than to be in heaven and if the wicked man who is here and had not degraded Heathcliff, I would have never thought. It would degrade me myself now than to marry Heathcliff. Also does he ever know how I like, and this, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. From whatever our souls are made, his and mine are the same and the Linton is as different from ours as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"Winter is not here yet. There’s a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?" - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free." - Emmet Fox

"The whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought." - Emmet Fox

"To every thing there is a season." - English Proverbs

"'Let's leave it alone, Eddy,' Thomas Hudson said. 'It's way past things we know about.'" - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are," -

"Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature ? translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive." - Hans Hoffman

"A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien