This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Edward Dyer, fully Sir Edward Dyer
Love-Contradictions - As rare to heare as seldome to be seene, It cannot be nor never yet hathe bene That fire should burne with perfecte heate and flame Without some matter for to yealde the same. A straunger case yet true by profe I knowe A man in joy that livethe still in woe: A harder happ who hathe his love at lyste Yet lives in love as he all love had miste: Whoe hathe enougehe, yet thinkes he lives wthout, Lackinge no love yet still he standes in doubte. What discontente to live in suche desyre, To have his will yet ever to requyre.
Better | Cause | Comfort | Day | Death | Faith | Famous | Fate | Force | Fortune | Grace | Hate | Hope | Knowledge | Life | Life | Light | Love | Mirth | Nothing | Present | Quiet | Rest | Reward | Safe | Sense | Sound | Thought | Trust | Will | World | Fate | Thought |
The humblest and the most unseen activity in the world can be the true worship of God. Work and worship literally become one. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever; and man carries out that function when he does what God sent him into the world to do. Work well done rises like a hymn of praise to God. This means that the doctor on his rounds, the scientist in his laboratory, the teacher in his classroom, the musician at his music, the artist at his canvas, the shop assistant at his counter, the typist at her typewriter, the housewife in her kitchen -- all who are doing the work of the world as it should be done are joining in a great act of worship.
Discipline | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | Man | Prayer | Service | Study | Suspicion | Will |
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
Never seek to tell thy love love that never told can be; for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; trembling, cold, in ghastly fears ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me a traveler came by silently, invisibly- he took her with a sigh.
Contemplation | Darkness | Knowledge | Men | Philosophy | Tears | Words | Contemplation |
Hearses coffins, long funeral processions, and all the dark emblems of mortality, were reflected, as it were, on the sky, from the terrible works of pestilence and famine which were going on the earth beneath it.
Blessings | Creed | God | Happy | Heart | Ignorance | Industry | Knowledge | Order | People | Principles | Progress | Religion | Right | Society | Spirit | Vengeance | Worship | Youth | Society | Youth | God |
How soft the music of those village bells, falling at interval upon the ear in cadence sweet; now dying all away, now pealing loud again, and louder still, clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells where memory slept.
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Schopenhauer says: Nothing gives us more harmony of accurate knowledge, and the more knowledge we to our emotions, the less control we. And nothing to protect us more control over our souls, if you want to subject everything to yourself subjected yourself to your mind. The compelling world not arouse in us admiration as compelling raised himself
Better | Evil | Good | Knowledge | Little | Mind | Nature | People | Self | System | Thinking |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Vanity wants nothing but the motive power to develop into absolute wickedness.
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Curiosity | Fear | Impulse | Insecurity | Knowledge | Man | Order | Understanding |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Confidence | Future | Hope | Knowledge | Will |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Admiration | Control | Harmony | Knowledge | Nothing | World |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Congress can pass a bad law and as soon as the old Normal Majority finds it out they have it scratched off the book.
Since practical ability differs from person to person, the majority of such abilities, in nearly all societies, is gathered in a minority of men. The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and the laws. Despotism m ay for a time retard the concentration; democracy, allowing the most liberty, accelerates it.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Willard Gibbs, fully Josiah Willard Gibbs
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.
Knowledge | Research | Theoretical |