This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willard L. Sperry, fully Willard Learoyd Sperry
isit every member twice a year: One fellow minister commented that this would be possible with a 200 member congregation, but would become harder with a larger congregation. I remember reading that for every 175-225 members there should be a minister — something some churches exceed while others fall short. Nevertheless, the point is to have an acquaintance with one’s congregation. A personal visit may be perceived as a “clerical duty” in today’s world, but another minister suggested having members over to your home (e.g., preacher, elder, deacon) for a meal to meet these ends.
Leave, O leave me to my sorrows; Here I’ll sit and fade away, Till I’m nothing but a spirit, And I lose this form of clay. Then if chance along this forest Any walk in pathless ways, Thro’ the gloom he’ll see my shadow Hear my voice upon the breeze.
In the Italian Renaissance… there was no ‘subject-matter’. What we call subject matter now, was then painting itself. Subject matter came later on when parts of those works were taken out arbitrarily, when a man for no reason is sitting, standing or ling down. He became a bather, she became a bather; she was reclining; he just stood there looking ahead. That is when the posing in panting began… For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on.
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These guys are so lousy. Why don't you flunk them? [on teaching at Yale]
I see the fourfold man; the humanity in deadly sleep, and its fallen emanation, the spectre and its cruel shadow. I see the past, present, and future existing all at once before me.
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary (monetary) matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A gentleman quoted me on the floor the other day. Another member took exception and said he objected to the remarks of Professional Joke Maker going into the Congressional Record. They are the Professional Joke Makers. Read some of the bills that they have passed. If you don’t think they ain’t Joke Makers. I could study all my life and not think up half the amount of funny things they can think of in one Session of Congress. Besides, my jokes don’t do anybody any harm. You don’t have to pay attention to them. But every one of the Jokes those Birds make is a law and hurt somebody (generally everybody). I object to being called a Professional. I’m an amateur beside them.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The Democrats are having a lot of fun exposing the Republican campaign corruptions, but they would have a lot more fun if they knew where they could lay their hands on some of it themselves for next November.
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