This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The angel that presided o'er my birth said `little creature, formed of joy and mirth, go, love without the help of anything on earth.'
Human nature is said by many to be good; if so, where have social evils come from? For human nature is the only moral nature in that corrupting thing called "society." Every example set before the child of to-day is the fruit of human nature. It has been planted on every possible field — among the snows that never melt; in temperate regions, and under the line; in crowded cities, in lonely forests; in ancient seats of civilization, in new colonies; and in all these fields it has, without once failing, brought forth a crop of sins and troubles.
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No enumeration of the fruits of the Spirit will be found which excludes peace and joy, much less love; and from these graces, if, indeed, not from the last alone, spring the various fruits which unitedly constitute righteousness.
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The machine can free man or enslave him; it can make of this world something resembling a paradise or a purgatory. Men have it within their power to achieve a security hitherto dreamed of only by the philosophers, or they may go the way of the dinosaurs, actually disappearing from the earth because they fail to develop the social and political intelligence to adjust to the world which their mechanical intelligence has created.
When the voices of children are heard on the green and laughing is heard on the hill, my heart is at rest within my breast and everything else is still.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
The faults of our neighbors with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practice the same.
The man to solitude accustom'd long, perceives in everything that lives a tongue; not animals alone, but shrubs and trees have speech for him, and understood with ease, after long drought when rains abundant fall, he hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Get this: We have always appreciated Mr. Rogers but because of his droll ill-advised remarks we find our enthusiasm beginning to jell. In other words, I was funny when the joke was on the other fellow, but any about me is ill-advised, and don't jell at all.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The biggest praise that a humorist can have is to get your stuff in The Congressional Record. Just think, my name will be right alongside all those other big humorists.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Jim, she said earnestly, if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived. My feet remember all the little paths through the woods, and where the big roots stick out to trip you. I ain't never forgot my own country.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
I was thinking, he answered absently, about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.
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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.