This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confide thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul’s purgatory. It is the wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skilled direct it.
When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red light... The truly wise person is colorblind.