This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
In its deepest sense, the truth is a condition of heart, soul, mind and strength towards God and towards our fellow – not an utterance, not even a right form of words; and therefore such truth coming forth in words is, in a sense, the person that speaks.
God | Heart | Mind | Right | Sense | Soul | Strength | Truth | Words | God |
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
In the cause of freedom, we have to battle for the rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom, in many cases, we may not like. These people test the strength of the freedoms which protect all of us. If we do not defend their rights, we endanger our own.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
One of the paradoxical lessons of the nuclear age is that at the moment when we are acquiring an unparalleled command over nature, we are forced to realize as never before that the problems of survival will have to be solved above all in the minds of men. In this task the fate of the mammoth and the dinosaur may serve as a warning that brute strength does not always supply the mechanism in the struggle for survival.
Age | Fate | Men | Nature | Problems | Strength | Struggle | Survival | Warning | Will | Fate |
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Strength |
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
Common Sense | Kill | Little | Principles | Sense | Wrong | Afraid |
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Devotion | Life | Life | Strength | Submission |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
All your strength is in your union, all your danger in discord.
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representation of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish flow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.
Determination | Enthusiasm | Life | Life | Mind | Object | Serenity | Strength | Virtue | Virtue |