This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
Health | Preference | Superiority | Will |
The Purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
Awe | Choice | Day | Eternal | Glory | God | Light | Lord | Love | Loyalty | Loyalty | Purity | Reverence | Sacred | Words | World | God |
Praise are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, creating light and fashioning darkness, ordaining the order of creation. You illumine the world and its creatures with mercy; in Your goodness, day after day You renew Creation. How manifold Your works, O Lord; with wisdom You fashioned them all. The earth abounds with Your creations. Uniquely exalted since earliest time, enthroned on praise and prominence since the world began, eternal God, with Your manifold mercies continue to love us, our Pillar of strength, protecting Rock, sheltering Shield, sustaining Stronghold. Our praiseworthy God with vast understanding fashioned the rays of the sun. The good light He created reflects His splendor; radiant lights surround his throne. His heavenly servants in holiness exalt the Almighty, constantly recounting His sacred glory. Praise shall be Yours, Lord our God, for Your wondrous works, for the lights You have fashioned, the sun and the moon which reflects your glory.
We bless You Adonai, our God, ruler of the universe. You create light and darkness, You make peace, And create all things. All acknowledge You, All praise Your unique holiness, All declare: None is holy like Adonai! All exalt You, for You create everything. Each day You burst open the doors of the eastern sky, And the windows of the globe surrounding the world, And You propel the sun and moon Out of their resting places. Each day You bring light to the world and its inhabitants, Each day You create the world all over again, Each day You demonstrate goodness. How abundant are your works, Adonai, All fashioned with wisdom; The entire world is filled with Your creations, For ages, we have praised You and glorified You. You are our exalted ruler, You are our eternal God. Have compassion on us, infinite source of compassion. You are our rock of strength, our shield of protection, our spring of salvation.
A Song : On The Green Margin - On the green margin of the brook, Despairing Phyllida reclined, Whilst every sigh, and every look, Declared the anguish of her mind. Am I less lovely then? (she cries, And in the waves her form surveyed); Oh yes, I see my languid eyes, My faded cheek, my colour fled: These eyes no more like lightning pierced, These cheeks grew pale, when Damon first His Phyllida betrayed. The rose he in his bosom wore, How oft upon my breast was seen! And when I kissed the drooping flower, Behold, he cried, it blooms again! The wreaths that bound my braided hair, Himself next day was proud to wear At church, or on the green. While thus sad Phyllida lamented, Chance brought unlucky Thyrsis on; Unwillingly the nymph consented, But Damon first the cheat begun. She wiped the fallen tears away, Then sighed and blushed, as who would say Ah! Thyrsis, I am won.
Aid | Books | Children | Day | Fidelity | Friend | Future | God | Important | Man | Merit | Power | Present | Promise | Providence | Purpose | Purpose | System | Will | Wonder | Yielding | God | Truths |
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
Church | Man | Self-righteousness | Superiority | Truth |
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face; terror the human form divine, and secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, the human form a fiery forge, the human face a furnace seal d, the human heart its hungry gorge.
History | Individual | Merit | Reason |
I agree with your Lordship that a translation perfectly close is impossible, because time has sunk the original strict import of a thousand phrases, and we have no means of recovering it. But if we cannot be unimpeachably faithful, that is no reason why we should not be as faithful as we can; and if blank verse affords the fairest chance, then it claims the preference.
His head, not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, but strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
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Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
A woman who can't talk and a woman who can cook, is simply a woman who has arrived at absolute perfection.
Light | Literature | Merit | Present |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
Good | Majority | Merit | Nothing | People | Thought | Time | Will | Thought |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
That [haunting fear of being wrong] is the fate of those who break without knowing clearly that Communism is wrong because something else is right, because to the challenge: God or Man?, they continue to give the answer: Man… They are witnesses against something; they have ceased to be witnesses for anything.
Awe | Important | Life | Life | Light | Men | Reverence | Wonder | World |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
My lovers suffocate me! Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin, Jostling me through streets and public halls... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river... swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush, Or while I swim in the bath....or drink from the pump on the corner... or the curtain is down at the opera... or I glimpse at a woman’s face in the railroad car; Lighting on every moment of my life, Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses, Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Art | Literature | Men | People | Superiority | Will | Art | Think |
Those who are living in anxiety and fear, most especially fear of scarcity, have no time or energy for the common good. Anxiety is no adequate basis for the common good; anxiety will cause the formulation of policy and of exploitative practices that are inimical to the common good, a systemic greediness that precludes the common good.
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow.