This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The blind are more understanding than the deaf because hearing exerts a direct influence on the formation of moral character, which is not immediately true of what is seen. The human soul can also become diffused by way of the eye whereas what is heard results in focus and concentration.
Character | Focus | Influence | Soul | Understanding |
Good temper is the most contented, the most comfortable state of the soul; the greatest happiness both for those who possess it, and for those who feel its influence. With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete... Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
Character | Comfort | Gentleness | Good | Influence | Man | Soul | Temper | Wife | Happiness |
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
Do not others expect from children more perfect conduct then they themselves exhibit? If a gracious child should lose his temper or act wrongly in some trifling thing through forgetfulness, straight-away he is condemned as a little hypocrite by those who are a long way from being perfect themselves.
Children | Conduct | Forgetfulness | Little | Temper | Child |
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only they who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory.
The tranquillity or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.