This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Epaminondas (or Epameinodas) NULL
Not only does the office distinguish the man, but also the man the office.
Distinguish | Man | Office | Wisdom |
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of ascent, was adjustable on principles of the common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.
Authority | Capacity | Civilization | Culture | Government | Man | Mankind | Morality | People | Principles | Progress | Reason | Redemption | Security | Society | Title | Wisdom |
Horace Fletcher, nicknamed "The Great Masticator"
The underlying cause of all weakness and unhappiness is man has always been, and still is, weak habit-of-thought.
Cause | Habit | Man | Thought | Unhappiness | Weakness | Wisdom |
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets than about the means of removing it.
Discontent | Evil | Means | Mind | Wisdom |
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.