This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Ends | Feelings | Providence | Happiness |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Now here is a thing. I am in the movies. When there was so much talk of cleaning up the movies, there wasn’t a lawyer, or any other profession but what said, Why don't they clean those things up? My wife and children can't go to see 'em.
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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
Chance | Church | Famous | Happy | Laughter | Little | Thinking |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
The Hiss Case has turned my wife and me into old people - not a disagreeable condition. But we who used to plan in terms of decades, now find a year, two years, the utmost span of time we can take in.
Defiance | Distinguish | Good | Laughter | Mind | Power | Reality | Smile | Understanding | Will | World | Crisis |
You will no longer believe that you "don't count." You will know and advocate your knowledge that you are the bearer of human society. Don't run away. Don't be afraid. It is not so terrible to be the responsible bearer of human society. Inflated leaders would have no soldiers and no arms if you clearly knew, and stood up for your knowledge, that a field has to yield wheat and a factory furniture or shoes, and not arms.
Ends | Inhumanity | Meanness | Means | Think |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
It is impossible to spoil a child under the age of eighteen months with too much love and attention.
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.
Good | Humor | Laughter | Companionship |
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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