This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Both houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me “To recommend to the People of the United States, a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful Hearts the many Signal Favours of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a Form of Government for their Safety and Happiness”... That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind Care and Protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation; for the signal and manifold Mercies, and the favourable Interpositions of his Providence in the Course & Conclusion of the late War; for the great Degree of Tranquillity, Union, and Plenty, which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational Manner in which we have been enabled to establish Constitutions of Government for our Safety and Happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious Liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various Favours which he hath been pleased to confer upon us... to enable us all, whether in public or private Stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually... to promote the Knowledge and Practice of true Religion and Virtue, and the increase of Science among them and us; and generally to grant unto all mankind such a Degree of temporal Prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Care | Day | God | Government | Knowledge | Liberty | Mankind | Means | Opportunity | People | Plenty | Practice | Prayer | Prosperity | Providence | Public | Religion | Science | Tranquility | Virtue | Virtue | War | Government |
It is one of the worst effect of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
Man | Prosperity |
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
Enlightenment | Freedom | Luxury | Prosperity | Security |
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
Destroy | Generosity | Prosperity |
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
John Steinbeck, fully John Ernst Steinbeck
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
Adversity | Hero | Prosperity |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Adversity | Prosperity |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
Arrogance | Disdain | Pride | Prosperity |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Advice |
Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts
We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
Dignity | Freedom | Indispensable | Individual | Need | Prosperity | Society | Will |
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli NULL
When a nation makes progress in science, technology, economic life, and the prosperity of its citizens, a great contribution is made to civilization. But all should realize that these things are not the highest good, but only instruments for pursuing such goods.
Civilization | Good | Life | Life | Progress | Prosperity | Science | Technology |
Tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events. There are natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and disheveled desolation.
Desolation | Events | Prosperity | Tragedy |