This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
From the Tower falls the sound of bronze: the show goes on between drums argue that the glory of the districts.
But woe to him, who left to moan, reviews the hours of brightness gone.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
In order to keep that temper which is so difficult, and yet so necessary to preserve, you may please to consider, that nothing can be more unjust or ridiculous, than to be angry with another because he is not of your opinion. The interests, education, and means by which men attain their knowledge, are so very different, that it is impossible they should all think alike; and he has at least as much reason to be angry with you, as you with him. Sometimes, to keep yourself cool, it may be of service to ask yourself fairly, what might have been your opinion, had you all the biasses of education and interest your adversary may possibly have?
I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.
It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
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