This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If any young man expects without faith, without thought, without study, without patient, persevering labor, in the midst of and in spite of discouragement, to attain anything in this world tht is worth attaining, he will simply wake up, by-and-by, and find that he has been playing the part of a fool.
Character | Faith | Labor | Man | Study | Thought | Will | World | Worth |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The world is moved by self-interest alone.
Character | Self | Self-interest | World |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
As for my labors, if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life, destroy a single vice, or give a morning’s cheerfulness to an honest mind - in short, if the world can be but one virtue the better, or in any degree less vicious, or receive from then the smallest addition to their innocent diversions - I shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain.
Better | Character | Cheerfulness | Destroy | Impertinence | Life | Life | Mind | Receive | Virtue | Virtue | World | Think |
All that in this world is great or gaie doth as a vapour vanish, and decaie.