This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
The life of the husbandman, - a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Local newspapers may be lulling themselves into a false sense of security by thinking they can reverse their subscriber loss somehow, some way. Barring some amazing innovation that no one has yet envisioned, and that’s certainly a possibility, print media subscriber loss will not be reversed under any circumstances. A company depending on unheard-of innovation for its survival is about as effective as you depending on the lottery to cover your retirement.
Attention | Famous | Hell | People | Talking | Will | World |
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Common Sense | Sense |
We confess our little faults to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
We often forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those we bore.
Man speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.
We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Generosity | Order |
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, the poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, that life, a very rebel to my will, may hang no longer on me. Throw my heart against the flint and hardness of my fault, which, being dried with grief, will break to powder and finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, nobler than my revolt is infamous, forgive me in thine own particular, but let the world rank me in register a master-leaver and a fugitive.
Sense |
When we exaggerate the tenderness of our friends towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own merit.
O thou who dost inhabit in my breast; Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was.
Duke Ellington, fully Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
It ought not to be the leading object of any one to become an eminent metaphysician, mathematician, or poet, but to render himself happy as an individual, and an agreeable, a respectable, and a useful member of society.
Mind | Order | Power | Understand |