This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.
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Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
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At the time of prayer, clear all worldly matters out of your heart; prepare your heart before God, blessed be He, purify your senses, and consider your words before you allow them to leave your mouth.
Why and how are words so important they cannot be too often used.
Let your talk be such as is worthy of belief, and your words such as are commonly used.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic… The question in every case is whether the words used are in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Circumstances | Danger | Free speech | Man | Nature | Panic | Present | Question | Right | Speech | Will | Words | Danger |
Even while striving to improve yourself, learn to stand alone, secure in your own virtues and self-worth. If you want others to believe in you, remember, it isn’t only your words that have an effect, but what you are and what you feel within - what is in your soul.
When one is transported by rage it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
The world is a great poem, and the world’s . The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds - epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.
Experiment | Fear | Good | Imagination | Novels | People | Poetry | Tragedy | Will |
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
Consistency | Little | Nothing | Soul | Tomorrow | Words | Think |
It is better either to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow things in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today - "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."-Is is to bad then to be misunderstood... to be great is to be misunderstood.
Consistency | Little | Nothing | Soul | Tomorrow | Words | Think |