This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Conscience is too great a power in the nature of man to be altogether subdued: it may for a time be repressed and kept dormant; but conjectures there are in human life which awaken it; and when once re-awakened, it flashes on the sinner’s mind with all the horrors of an invisible ruler and a future judgment.
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But heaven hath a hand in these events; to whose high will we bound our calm contents. King Richard II, Act v, Scene 2
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
Lo, the lovers unloved that draw nigh for your blessing! For your tale makes the dreaming whereby yet they live the dreams of the day with their hopes of redressing, the dreams of the night with the kisses they give, the dreams of the dawn wherein death and hope strive.
God grant indeed thy words are not for nought! Then shalt thou save me, since for many a day to such a dreadful life I have been brought: nor will I spare with all my heart to pay what man soever takes my grief away; ah! I will love thee, if thou lovest me but well enough my saviour now to be.
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Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it, that shall live on and on forever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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O place and greatness! millions of false eyes are stuck upon thee; volumes of reports run with these false and most contrarious quests upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit make thee the father of their idle dream, and wrack thee in their fancies.
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.