This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
This sin is especially in the heart. One may have little, and yet be covetous; and one may be rich, and yet free from covetousness.
If Religion has raised us into a new world, if it has filled us with new ends of life, if it has taken possession of our hearts, and altered the whole turn of our minds, if it has changed all our ideas of things, given us a new set of hopes and fears, and taught us to live by the realities of an invisible world -- then we may humbly hope that we are true followers.
Children | Devotion | God | Growth | Influence | Parents | Rest | God |
Now the hungry lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon; whilst the heavy ploughman snores, all with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, puts the wretch that lies in woe in remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, that the graves, all gaping wide, every one lets forth his sprite, in the church-way paths to glide. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act v, Scene 1
You have made the cement of your churches out of tears and ashes, and the fabric will not stand.
Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
Now For self-culture nothing equals respect for others. To counteract firmness nothing equals compliance. Consequently it can be said that the Way of respect and acquiescence is woman's most important principle of conduct. So respect may be defined as nothing other than holding on to that which is permanent; and acquiescence nothing other than being liberal and generous. Those who are steadfast in devotion know that they should stay in their proper places; those who are liberal and generous esteem others, and honor and serve chem.
Age | Authority | Books | Boys | Children | Conduct | Education | Men | Present | Relationship | Rites | Rule | Study | Teach | Understand |
I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged.
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days.
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Emmeline met Markie at Croydon: he was so very late she feared he would miss the plane. In her thin grey coat and skirt she sat waiting under the skylight on that sexagonal seat round the little pharos of clocks. A huge blue June day filled the aerodrome and reflected itself in the hall: she heard a great hum from the waiting plane hungry for flight.
Children |
Perfect voting record on affirmative action when it has come under assault.
Children |
Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Character | Children | Compassion | Honor | Life | Life | Will |
ROMEO: Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much. MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found, a love that makes breath poor and speech unable.
Behavior | Cause | Children | Contempt | Counsel | Desire | Duty | Father | Fear | Friend | Good | Grace | Heaven | Honor | Love | Marriage | Mind | Obedience | Pity | Pleasure | Right | Sacred | Time | Wife | Will | Wise | Wit | Woman | Friendship | Counsel | Friends |
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life… what happened was that I started to pray.
Children | Friend | Marriage | Unhappiness |
I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.
Absence | Children | Desire | Enough | People | Reason | Regret | Thinking | Witness | Think |