This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
A vision without resources is an hallucination.
An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character, and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy.
Courage | Daring | Decision | Generosity | Pleasure | Present | Will | Hardship | Friends |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
Tobias Smollett, fully Tobias George Smollett
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, and yet I needs must curse; but they'll nor pinch, fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' the mire, nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but for every trifle are they set upon me; sometime like apes, that moe and chatter at me, and after, bite me; then like hedgehogs, which lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I all wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues, do hiss me into madness. The Tempest, Act ii, Scene 2
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Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a sweltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
Belief | Courage | Eternal | Light | Means | Nature | Need | Trust | Wisdom | World |
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered than the glory and shame that come to nations as well as individuals from the ups and downs of politics and the vicissitudes of trade.
Better | Cheerfulness | Courage | Will |
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
We often believe we are constant under misfortunes when we are only dejected; and we suffer then without daring to look on them, like cowards who allow themselves to be killed through fear of defending themselves.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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If you don't keep a close eye on your property, people will steal from you.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; she is a woman, therefore may be won; she is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'd. What, man! more water glideth by the mill than wots the miller of; and easy it is of a cut loaf to steal a shive.