This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
O hearken the words of his voice of compassion: "come cling round about me, ye faithful who sicken of the weary unrest and the world's passing fashions! As the rain in mid-morning your troubles shall thicken, but surely within you some godhead doth quicken, as ye cry to me heeding, and leading you home."
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.
He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate - he was lost upon the coral reefs.
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most important.
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
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The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Praise |
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
Wise |