This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I thought love lived in the hot sunshine, but o, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find love in the heat of day, but sweet love is the comforter of night.
My mother bore me in the southern wild, and I am black, but o! My soul is white; white as an angel is the English child, but I am black as if bereaved of light… and we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love, and these black bodies and this sunburnt face is but a cloud, and like a shady grove… I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear to lean in joy upon our father's knee; and then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair, and be like him and he will then love me.
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
Apathy | Body | Existence | Impossibility | Influence | Man | Mind | People | Prayer | Sense | Soul | Thought | Thought |
Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, but animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
I understand that in France, though the use of rouge be general, the use of white paint is far from being so. In England, she that uses one commonly uses both. Now, all white paints, or lotions, or whatever they may be called, are mercurial; consequently poisonous, consequently ruinous in time to the constitution. The Miss B—— above mentioned was a miserable witness of the truth, it being certain that her flesh fell from her bones before she died. Lady Coventry was hardly a less melancholy proof of it; and a London physician perhaps, were he at liberty to blab, could publish a bill of female mortality of a length that would astonish us.
With filial confidence inspired, can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, and smiling say, my father made them all!
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A man in the country does his own thinking. Get him into town and he will be thinking second-handed.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.
Cost | Defeat | Hope | Infamy | Sense | Soul | Struggle | Suffering | Tragedy |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
Freedom | Justification | Reading | Religion | Soul | World |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: “My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.” That is the tone of innocence.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Toscanini was hailing a great artist, but that voice was more than a magnificent personal talent. It was the religious voice of a whole religious people — probably the most God-obsessed (and man-despised) people since the ancient Hebrews.
Ability | Corruption | Evil | Fate | Little | Man | Mankind | Men | Soul | Weakness | Will | Witness | Fate | Intellect |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century. Stalin has made Russia great again!
Dirty | Instinct | Knowledge | Mystery | Reality | Soul | Spirit |