This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has sent in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good in its placed as conscience or veneration. Praying can o more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.
Asceticism | Conscience | God | Good | Mind | Spirit | God | Blessed |
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang for ever rusting on the wall.
Each child’s mind [should go] through a process like that which the mind of humanity at large has gone through. The truths of number, of form, of relationship in position, were all originally drawn from objects; and to present these truths to the child in the concrete is to let him learn them as the race learned them.
Humanity | Mind | Position | Present | Race | Relationship | Child | Learn | Truths |
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the infirm excitement of passions and vices.
Excitement | Knowledge | Love | Mind |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things. Read not the times, read the eternities.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Hate is a greater tie than love. The person we hate occupies our mind far more than the person we love.
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purpose, whether of good or of evil.
Custom | Difficulty | Energy | Evil | Good | Mind | Philosophy | Poetry | Purpose | Purpose |
All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.
Ends | Intuition | Knowledge | Mind | Nothing | Reason | Sense | Thought | Understanding | Unity |