This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure in life.
Adventure | Aspiration | Character | Evil | Life | Life | Meaning | Repentance | World |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Character | Evil | Punishment |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common.
Abuse | Character | Evil | Understanding | Vice |
Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of healthy, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.
Character | Evil | Heart | Man | Rest | Sorrow | World | Loss |
No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defense; defense, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.
Boasting | Character | Conscience | Custom | Defense | Evil | Indulgence | Man | Mind | Practice |
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.